Climbing

This past week, five new sports were proposed to the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Among them: climbing. There would be three categories of [...]

Last Saturday (May 14, 2016) EVO Rock + Fitness Concord held the 2016 Sport & Speed Youth Regionals Comp. We asked routesetter Sydney McNair (one of four setters for the event and head-setter [...]

In the summer of 2015, Alex Puccio took a fall while warming up for a competition. She blew her ACL, MCL, and meniscus, all in one go. Doctors told her it’d be at least half a year before [...]

Did you know that World War II, military officers were trained in rock climbing to learn how to infiltrate enemy territories? It was also during this time that scientists invented carabiners and [...]

Do you know Emily Harrington?  If not, you should.  At just 29 years old, she’s a five-time Sport Climbing National Champion and is sponsored by The North Face, Petzl, and La Sportiva.  She has [...]