When you want to increase your vertical adventure to a multipitch route and not limit yourself to single pitch routes at the crag, one may start thinking about the idea of multipitch routes. The ...

In 1980 my college roommate, Mark Herndon, fell 100 feet on a two-pitch route. I was belaying from a stance at the end of the first pitch, cooling my feet, shoes off. Mark had just cruised the ...

I swung my brake hand hard against my hip and flew 20 feet up to an ice screw. The fall by Peter Athans, 185 pounds of muscle, through space off the famous Fang ice climb in Vail, Colorado, ripped the ...

Wild Country, Red Chili and Climbing Magazine has produced a series of 'How To' videos to demonstrate a number of rock climbing skills and techniques. In this video Julie Ellison, Climbing Magazine ...

FitRec’s rock climbing wall is popular with both experienced belayers and newbies. Belaying, the essential rock-climbing safety technique of managing a rope to protect a climber from falling, ...