You may not have gym class anymore, but rope climbing can still be a good workout. And knowing how to climb a rope could be an invaluable skill in some emergency situations. Here are a few methods you ...

Covering significant amounts of terrain on long routes in Yosemite and Patagonia demands progressive tactics. The best way for a team to advance quickly and stay warm on big routes is to have both ...

What is smearing in climbing? The word smear has multiple definitions and we’re certainly not going to get into all of them here. If you aren’t familiar with the smearing rock climbing term, you’d ...

Climb the CoRec's 55-foot top rope wall, 12-foot Kilter Board (COMING SOON) or the 12-foot Bouldering Wall with more than 60 horizontal feet of terrain. With a wide range of difficulty in climbing ...

There’s not a rock climber alive who hasn’t been asked this question from a passer-by at some point. After muttering an answer, the climber will often hear a follow-up like, “You know there’s an ...

Climbing techniques, single pitch lower-off analysis. What to do when you reach the abseil chain. 1. Reach the chain and make safe by clipping a quickdraw from the harness belay loop to the ring, ...

What goes up must come down. You may be aware that down climbing is much more difficult and time consuming than climbing upwards, as well as sounding a little contradictory. This is because it's much ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two climbers who plunged to their deaths from El Capitan were using a risky technique known as simul-climbing to increase their speed and may have neglected to attach their rope to an ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

I’ve never enjoyed walking into a gym. Growing up as a fat kid, I have enough traumatic memories around exercise to fill several therapy sessions. On top of the shame I had around my body, I also have ...