One of my first times going bouldering outside, I thought I was hot stuff. I was finally doing V7s and V8s in my gym, so I was gonna crush on real rock, right? My lesson: outdoor bouldering grades may ...

I haven’t climbed since grade school (unless you count a few trees and more fences than I’d care to confess). But as far as rock climbing or bouldering is concerned, I’m green as grass. This summer, I ...

Climber Jordan Lynch of Breckenridge groaned, transferring all of his weight to his fingers before lifting his body off the ground to begin climbing an unnamed boulder problem at the Montezuma ...

Michael Reese thought it would be fun to run up the precipitous First Flatiron above Boulder to see how fast he could do it. And we do mean run. He did have to mix in some hand holds in sections, but ...

I didn’t move to Boulder for rock climbing, but Boulder turned me into a rock climber. More than four years ago, I joined a local climbing gym mainly for its fitness classes, proximity to my apartment ...

In some ways, Frederick Law Olmsted made Ashima Shiraishi a climber. She was 6 when she first tried to scale Rat Rock, a long, low outcropping of Manhattan schist in Central Park, just north of ...

Gone are the color-coded plastic holds and the plush gym flooring. Instead, real rock digs into my fingers, my feet scrape over moss, and two crash pads below are my only promise of a soft landing.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As rock climbing gyms have been closed for months due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, Louisville’s Eldorado Climbing Walls has reimagined ...

In October, climbers’ palms start to sweat. Knowing cooler temperatures bring better climbing conditions, they dream up epic trips to California’s world-class climbing destinations. Their fingertips ...