One day last March, 44-year-old Scott Sederstrom was climbing in the Owens River Gorge, a popular sport climbing area just outside of Mammoth, California, using an advanced technique called ...
One of our favorite parts about sport climbing is the relative safety that the medium provides. Compared to high-ball bouldering, or trad climbing, clipping bolts up a steep wall is largely free of ...
Creating new rock, ice and mountain climbing routes — and even climbing or maintaining existing ones — could become heavily regulated and restricted by the federal government under a joint proposal ...
A carabiner can be clipped to a bolt hanger to secure the climbing rope. (Jeff Ruppenthal/Sunday News) Eric Horst squinted up at shiny pinpoints beckoning from the cliff. Bolt hangers. Climbers clip ...
Italian climber and new router Maurizio Oviglia once again focuses on the safety of climbing bolts and anchors on sport climbs in seaside environments and has launched a campaign to raise funds in ...
My previous column, “The good, the bad and the necessary,â defended (permitted) bolting in the Flatirons. The piece garnered more feedback than any other column I’ve written and, in retrospect, this ...
TERREBONNE, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The High Desert Climbers Alliance is a nonprofit group of climbers who protect and expand climbing access trails in Central Oregon for sport climbing. And they were at it on ...
Parks Victoria has begun repair works on a Grampians cave famous among rock climbers after getting the green light from traditional owners. A climbing guide company has been contracted to remove chalk ...
On 10 December 2012 the bolts were removed from the sports climb Eterno Riposo, Eternal Rest, at Ceredo in Italy. On his blog Andrea Tosi, the man who first bolted the climb and now removed the bolts, ...