Eating Disorders

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month we present 12 feature stories about climbers struggling with depression, alcoholism, disordered eating, grief, loneliness, and more.

What you should know about relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S)

The climbing community has an eating-disorder problem—but will there ever be a solution?

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Eating disorders, dangerous dieting, and bad body images run rampant in the climbing community. We’re all playing a game with gravity, but what happens when we push our bodies and minds into unhealthy territory—and how do we stop it?