Meet the Board Lord, Sean Houchins-McCallum
This 20-year-old American climber is putting up the hardest, steepest, and most dynamic board problems in the world.
This 20-year-old American climber is putting up the hardest, steepest, and most dynamic board problems in the world.
A Melbourne-based climber has a new vision for gym holds: art that climbs like rock.
Climbing is hard enough as it is; don't stunt your progression if you can help it. Here are 7 easy-to-fix mistakes as you ease into the sport.
Miraculously, he is expected to make a full recovery
A reader asks whether climbing indoors or in the shade makes climbers susceptible to osteomalacia, or softening of the bones, due to vitamin D deficiency.
On Sunday, October 22, Touchstone’s Hollywood Boulders management were made aware that a member of the gym had suggested that they were “strapped” with a weapon and “wanted scalps.”
Hector Diffut, 26, fell 30 feet from the top of an indoor wall after forgetting to clip into the auto belay.
A Gen Z staffer meets an old-school climber, and the dreaded belay test ensues…
Whereas climbing was once a niche sport of soul seekers and dirtbags, it has transformed itself into a multi-billion dollar industry. That’s had positive and negative effects on the culture of indoor climbing, which in turn shapes the community at large.
There’s plenty to learn from this one.
"Her son was still on the wall, suspended about 20 feet up. The only thing holding him up was a Grigri chained to the floor."
An experience on the purple boulder problem at the gym altered the author's life course in an unexpected way.
If you’re interested in trying climbing for the first time, the gym is an excellent place to start. Here is your quick guide to indoor rock climbing.
Employees at Movement Climbing, Yoga & Fitness Crystal City, in Arlington, Virginia, have worked to unionize for the past nine months. Now, their union certificate is in the mail, making the facility the first climbing gym in the country to unionize.
So how does that pink V5 in the gym’s corner stack up against outdoor boulders?
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Fifty-five tons of steel, 24 tons of fiberglass and plexiglass and eight Walltopia technicians: with that and more, the tallest climbing wall in the world was constructed on the exterior of CopenHill.
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