This past Thursday, a few friends and I went to an adult rock climbing class at the field house at Chelsea Piers. Growing up in the Bronx, rock climbing is not one of the extracurricular activities ...

The muscles in your hips and torso strain to hold your lower half against the wall. You arch backward and extend one hand up to clasp the next hold—your thighs and calves burning with the effort of ...

Josh Larson was about 14 years old when he went to a carnival and decided to give the climbing wall a whirl. It was nothing major—about 25 feet, he recalls—but the instructor was impressed and made a ...

Climbers from around the world come to Utah to scale the sheer granite walls in Lone Peak Cirque and American Fork Canyon, often relying on hangers bolted onto the rock to protect them from ...

Last weekend, 450 of the world’s best rock climbers convened in the outskirts of Moscow at the CSKA Sports Complex for the second stop on the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s (IFSC) World ...