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 ...

The very first section of the wall built in 1983 was a classic wooden vertical structure. There were no commercially available climbing holds at the time so we used wooden holds, machined holds out of ...

Then three more holds would appear ... “It’s steep, and down climbing steep rock makes it hard to see your feet." He almost gave into the temptation to rappel, but decided instead he ...

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 ...