Even though the sport climbers and boulderers don't like it, sometimes getting to the crag requires a bit of hiking.

Arc’teryx Whereas the Vertex Alpine was billed as a true approach shoe for steep terrain, the Vertex Speed is designed to scale the same mountain faces with velocity. A dual-density midsole features a ...

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 ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

A REVOLUTIONARY mountaineer who invented the five-fingered climbing shoe has plunged to his death after falling from a peak in Italy. Married dad and mountain sports enthusiast Robert Fliri ...