Category: Beginner Basics

If you are familiar with rock climbing at all, you have probably heard of Alex Honnold's free solo ascents of the massive granite walls in Yosemite Valley. Granite provides climbers with some of the...

Before I went rock climbing outside for the first time, I didn't have a solid idea of how rope management actually worked. I was only familiar with the auto-belay top rope setups and bouldering walls...

Every climbing gym has an older climber or two who talk about how hard they could climb back when they were younger. The last time I overheard that comment I began to wonder at what age are rock...

Every single tall climber (including myself) has frustrated their shorter climbing partners at one point or another by skipping a hold and the difficult move associated with it by using their long...

The ideal height, weight, and BMI for climbing is a heavily debated topic. Many climbers believe that the lighter and thinner someone is, the better climber they will be. To see if this is the case,...

The ideal height for rock climbers has been a topic of much debate within the climbing community. Many believe that being taller is a lot better for climbing while others say being shorter definitely...