A new rock climber typically starts with a style of climbing called toproping, where the rope runs from the belayer's device and harness up through the anchor at the top of the climb and back down to ...

There’s nothing as challenging and exhilarating as scaling a vertical rock face. Rock climbing develops sinewy forearms, ripped abs, and well-defined calves. It’s a safer, more accessible version of ...

In an environment where many small businesses are struggling to adapt to the mass quarantines around the world, one business is seeing demand rise. BELAY, founded by husband and wife team Bryan and ...

Greetings from the Philippines! I was horrified the other day when I chanced upon these climbers belaying with an ascender. I gave them my best advice because I thought there was about to be a ...

Michael Kester had sketched out a career in public service or public office, but the study of philosophy and leadership broadened his horizons Michael Kester knows when to shift gears. He was a ...

Belay. Bouldering. Carabiner. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew these were climbing terms. But that was about all I knew when my 10-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, asked me to be the ‘adult’ in an ...

Last February, I was getting ready to belay a surfer friend of mine, a beginner, on a top-rope, and I was demonstrating how to tie a figure-eight when I felt a tap on my shoulder. "Umm, you're not ...

Over the past 20 years, the concept and practice of belaying in technical rescue have been controversial, to say the least. Two decades ago, it was rare to even see a belay line in the fire service. I ...