For the latter, many have turned to 3D printers to create more rock-like climbing grips but plastic doesn’t tend to behave the same as rock unless you do what [Giles Barton-Owen] did and ...

Failing to clip into a quickdraw invalidates any further progress a climber may make on the route. On a lead climbing wall, there are at least 40 holds present, and only the highest 40 holds are ...

Brian Doscher fell in love with rock climbing at Iowa State. Now he's back in Ames, where he's opened the community's 1st ...

Researchers have explored how integrating machine and deep learning techniques can create a standardized system for evaluating rock climbing routes to provide a difficulty grading scale that promotes ...