Rock climbers who have expressed concern over proposed changes to federal regulations affecting climbing safety equipment in wilderness areas got some powerful allies this week when more than a ...

Rock climbers gain protection in legislation signed into law by Biden A proposal by the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service to restrict the use of fixed anchors is now dead ...

Separately, Congress passed the Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act on Thursday, which declares that fixed anchors used by climbers to ascend and descend rock walls — including bolts ...

Climbing bolts technically constitute "fixed climbing anchors," but are often referred to simply as bolts because most are, in fact, bolts in rock. Bolt anchors are threaded steel studs of either ...

“Each session has its own specific focus,” says Casey Hitchcock, director of climbing center operations for Peak Experiences.

Rock climbers secure themselves by ropes to anchors, such as pitons or other climbing equipment. The ropes are intended to arrest their fall if they should slip, and typically climbers use backup ...

Authorities in Utah are searching for whoever banged climbing anchors into the site of an ancient outdoor engraving carved by Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. The bolts — which climbers ...

Separately, Congress passed the Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act on Thursday, which declares that fixed anchors used by climbers to ascend and descend rock walls – including bolts ...