For the latter, many have turned to 3D printers to create more rock-like climbing grips but plastic doesn’t tend to behave the same as rock unless you do what [Giles Barton-Owen] did and ...

The very first section of the wall built in 1983 was a classic wooden vertical structure. There were no commercially available climbing holds at the time so we used wooden holds, machined holds out of ...

Failing to clip into a quickdraw invalidates any further progress a climber may make on the route. On a lead climbing wall, there are at least 40 holds present, and only the highest 40 holds are ...

Research being done at the UNH could give rock climbers a better grip on how easy or difficult their next rocky challenge ...

Rock climbing is exactly what it sounds like. It's an activity where you climb on rocks or mountains outdoors, or on rock climbing walls indoors, for fun, adventure, or exercise. Climbing used to ...