What is smearing in climbing? The word smear has multiple definitions and we're certainly not going to get into all of them here. If you aren't familiar with the smearing rock climbing term, you'd ...

What goes up must come down. You may be aware that down climbing is much more difficult and time consuming than climbing upwards, as well as sounding a little contradictory. This is because it's much ...

Covering significant amounts of terrain on long routes in Yosemite and Patagonia demands progressive tactics. The best way for a team to advance quickly and stay warm on big routes is to have both ...

Climbing techniques, single pitch lower-off analysis. What to do when you reach the abseil chain. 1. Reach the chain and make safe by clipping a quickdraw from the harness belay loop to the ring, ...

We talk traditional rock climbing (i.e. “trad climbing”) with Mark Smiley and Vikki Weldon at the Arc’teryx Climbing Academy. The term “Traditional” rock climbing (or as many often refer to as “Trad”) ...

Britain's Pete Whittaker is one of the world's most experienced trad climbers with cutting-edge first ascents and hard repeats to his name. These span the spectrum, from short and desperate gritstone ...