If you are a beginner climber and you feel like you have to learn another language to get on board, you are not alone. Climbing terminology is on a league of its own, but once you know the basics, its ...

Climbing grades differ by region or even by crag within the same area. Some routes or boulders may be graded by the hardest ...

When you're eying up a climb, assuming it's a line that's been done before, first and foremost it's worth knowing a couple of things. One: is the climb actually any good? Routes are usually given some ...

“How hard is it?” asked a University of Colorado Boulder student one day last week as I dangled from a static line in the Flatirons. “What’s the grade?” asked a friend a few days later as I placed the ...

One of my first times going bouldering outside, I thought I was hot stuff. I was finally doing V7s and V8s in my gym, so I was gonna crush on real rock, right? My lesson: outdoor bouldering grades may ...

Here's how winter climbing grades work. Just when you thought you had grades mastered, here’s another system. Here's how winter climbing grades work. Winter routes are graded for difficulty and ...

Blaise O’Mara, a Sunapee native who is currently a master’s degree student at UNH, was the lead researcher of the project to eliminate grading bias from rock climbing through the use of deep-learning ...

Motivated by debates on facebook, the Italian climber and photographer Riky Felderer shares his point of view about an issue that knows no end: climbing grades. I followed with interest a ...

“Well, that’s the crux of it,” is an oft-used phrase to describe the most pressing or important issue, problem or puzzle. In essence, the crux is the most important part of something, the issue on ...