It covers the need to know information to help assess the safety of an outdoor sport climb. Part two is newly published and is a guide to current good practice for choosing and installing bolts, ...

Sport climbing in the wild will continue after the National Park Service announced it has dropped proposals that could have banned the placement of climbing bolts in the wilderness. In November ...

Climbing bolts are permanent anchors driven into a rock face to be used by sport climbers for attaching gear that would protect them in case they were to fall. The petroglyph site was discovered ...

Maurizio Oviglia recently rebolted one of Sardinia's iconic top-end sport climbs, Le lion de Panshir in the Millennium Cave at Cala Gonone and exchanged a few words with the first ascensionist, French ...

Rock climbing is a diverse and multi-faceted sport, with variations all involving climbing from the bottom to the top ... To climb a route clean first time from bottom to top in one continual flow, ...

without bolts and with trad gear. “The first person to start greenpointing was Wolfgang Güllich in the 1980’s…” This, in short, is how the Grünpunkt climbing movement began in Germany's Frankenjura, ...

An iconic sport climbing spot has been closed by a ... and continued installation of climbing bolts and screws on fragile sandstone cliffs. I resent the climbers’ sense of entitlement ...