Belay. Bouldering. Carabiner. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew these were climbing terms. But that was about all I knew when my 10-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, asked me to be the ‘adult’ in an ...

During my senior year of high school, my friends and I were bored. We decided we collectively knew enough about climbing for it to be safe, so we went to the local outfitter and bought harnesses, ...

When you want to increase your vertical adventure to a multipitch route and not limit yourself to single pitch routes at the crag, one may start thinking about the idea of multipitch routes. The ...

A young climbing coach took what could've been a deadly ground fall at Vertical Rock gym in Manassas, Virginia last week. Hector Diffut, 26, fell approximately 30 feet from the top of a 5.11 after he ...

The Climbing Wall program offers classes that cover introductory through advanced skills. Taking the Belay class is a great way to grow your climbing knowledge. The Belay Class teaches the skills ...

I've been climbing for decades, and the mistakes I've made or seen cover the gamut. My knot came partly untied while I was climbing at Joshua Tree; I've threaded my belay device backward; partway up ...

Rock climbers mobilized against a move to restrict the fixed anchors they often leave behind in wilderness areas. A National Park Service proposal to restrict use of rock-climbing anchors in ...