Aside from the ice climbers, mountaineers, and Charles Albert, every climber needs a pair of reliable climbing shoes.

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 ...

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 ...

But Honnold has been working on a project to scale the 3,000ft ... you’ll almost definitely be wearing climbing shoes and you may well even be on a harness and top roped or placing pieces ...