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 ...

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 ...

Suspended by only a rope and harness, the ground below stares back up at the SDSU climbers. Their adventurous souls will go where many will not. With tight and pointed rubber shoes that pinch their ...

Tori Ward fit the tips of her shoes onto "rocks" as small as a child's fist. From below, Molly Wick fed Ward rope as she made her ascent 10, 20, 30 feet in the air. Along the way, Ward clipped herself ...

From teamwork to discipline, the rock gym’s fall sessions focus on more than just climbing As kids across Oklahoma prepare to head back to school, one Tulsa facility is making sure the fun — and ...

It’s Thursday morning at CityRock. Heart’s “Barracuda” echoes throughout the climbing gym, queued alongside other hits from the 1960s and ‘70s. Climbers quickly ascend the towering walls, with belay ...