Climbing Staff

Two routes, two climbers, and a shared finish. What could go wrong?

"The South is full of these quiet figures in the climbing community—people who have put up some hard, scary, beautiful, hard-to-find routes and problems. I think there is something special about recognizing these folks."

"A hodgepodge of slightly newer hardware dots the cliff, a marker of all the old bolts that have ripped and needed replacement over the years.”

What bouldering is, how to do it, why, and what the future of bouldering looks like.