Whether you are an avid climber or new to the rock-climbing scene, this popular activity necessitates some pretty important equipment purchases. From climbing walls in city gyms to the challenge of a ...

Lead climbing is one of a number of different types of climbing. This discipline of climbing can take place on rock, ice or indoor climbing walls. If you've been watching the Olympics sport climbing ...

There are many mysteries in life, including why we end up with so many odd socks during the laundry process, why does bread toast perfectly the first time and then burn the next time – and why do ...

Eric Waldron remembers the first time he went rock climbing at college. “I was immediately hooked,” said Eric Waldron, climbing school manager of Eastern Mountain Sports in Ulster County. “I went out ...

VINEMONT - There's just one way to get the eagle's-eye view of the deep, green Hurricane Creek gorge. You have to earn it, one handful of rock at a time. And The Slab is the first fistful for neophyte ...

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 ...

If you can climb a ladder, you can climb a 50-foot rock wall. So says Link Neimark. At first, you’ll be skeptical. You’ll trek out into the wilderness, up bumpy back roads and through the underbrush.

During a rock climbing session at his local gym, Alexander Tsao gazed at the rope that was keeping him secured 40 feet off the ground and suddenly had a thought: What happened to the ropes when they ...

Paul Fish was just 16 when he was introduced to the white-knuckle world of rock climbing. He hated every big-name sport in the book, but to his surprise, every pull that day on the side of Mount ...