Debate over Climbing in 2020 Olympics
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 [...]
Team EVO Kids Crush Regionals, Many Move To Divisionals
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 [...]
Alex Puccio’s New Film is Like Woah
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 [...]
The EVO Blog
It’s here! The EVO blog! In a world where information comes flying at us like loose chalk out of a bag, it can be overwhelming to pin down what we really want to know. Consider this a mini-hub [...]
Throwback Thursday: Climbing in WWII
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 [...]
Eat Climb Send: A Scientific Perspective
“Eating Your Way to Better Climbing,” written by sports science researcher Robert Portman, Ph.D., was published in Rock & Ice Issue 198 (December 2011) and is still applicable today. As a [...]
The Evolution of Emily Harrington and Her Dad Tim Harrington
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 [...]
Learning to Climb Outdoors
When I first started climbing in 2006, there were two things that got me hooked on climbing: spending time with good friends and the amazing granite of New Hampshire. Starting by climbing [...]
10 Things You Didn’t Know About EVO Portland
One of EVO’s partners, Cort Gariepy, helped Scott Howard build the Maine Rock Gym (MRG) back in 1994, and it stayed on Marginal Way for twenty years. As the climbing community grew, so did talk [...]
