"Thank you, now we just need to clear you for belaying. If you would just have a seat over there?" The young person indicated an area around the corner from the front desk where there was a dedicated ...

Back in the early ’90s, when my interest in rock climbing was at its peak, the name Todd Skinner evoked images of a rock-climbing superman. He and his partner Paul Piana had completed their ...

A new rock climber typically starts with a style of climbing called toproping, where the rope runs from the belayer's device and harness up through the anchor at the top of the climb and back down to ...

Most of us have become so accustomed to dropping onto bolts that we now fall more often than we send. This casualness has trickled down to belayers, who scratch their dogs and lounge in lawn chairs as ...

The infinity belay loop is a cool feature that eliminates the alarming shift that occurs when the carabiner that attaches to your belay device catches on the stitched overlap of the old belay loop ...

(WBIR - KNOXVILLE) A new report shows the death of an 18-year-old Georgia man at Ijams Nature Center's new adventure course could have been caused by incompatibilities in the equipment. The report ...

The Mule Knot (a.k.a releasable knot) is ideal to lock off the rope on the belay plate. There are many occasions in climbing when, belaying from the harness using a device which does not self-arrest ...