Barefoot shoes also tend to be less restrictive than ... a Vibram textured outsole for optimal traction, whether you're ...

Modern climbers have the opposite problem. Go to any outdoor recreation store and prepare to be overwhelmed by shelves of cutting-edge climbing shoes and marketing gibberish. That’s how I felt ...

Barefoot shoes might mean you’re slower and more ... Our feet meet the ground in various ways depending on whether we’re climbing a hill, descending a steep slope, hopping over tree roots ...

A REVOLUTIONARY mountaineer who invented the five-fingered climbing shoe has plunged ... without compromising sensory ground feedback". The "barefoot" shoes were worked on from 1999 until they ...

What is striking is not so much the impressive speed with which the 18-year-old full-time climber has repeated these testpieces (it’s worth remembering that 8C+ is currently considered the upper limit ...