Rock climbing naturally brings out the gear geek in all of us. The equipment itself is just plain sexy—and as sport-specific and downright essential as it gets. If you rock climb, or aspire to, you ...

Sport climbing made it's debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and it will be making its return at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. Pretty soon, it will also be debuting right here in Midland. If you've ...

In the eighties, nineties, and much of the early aughts, rock climbing gyms were little more than training grounds where climbers honed their skills in preparation for objectives on real rock. But ...

As rock climbers, we ask a lot of our climbing pants. We want them to protect our legs from the elements on bad weather days, sharp vegetation on bushwhack approaches, and coarse rock when it’s time ...

Every day, either after school or throughout the summer, you can find 16-year-old Kyra Nelson at Portland Rock Gym in Beaverton. She’s doing fingertip pull-ups. She’s climbing boulders. And she’s ...