Tenaya has quietly infiltrated the climbing shoe scene since its founding in 1997. The Spanish brand didn’t have the media firepower of brands like FiveTen or LaSportiva. Still, it has ...

In the early days of rock climbing, athletes had a simple choice: Slip on a pair of rubber-soled high-tops or don a pair of heavy hiking boots. Suffice to say, footwear was limited and unsuited to ...

The market responded and brands started to design approach shoes specifically for technical climbing, with La Sportiva even boasting that you could climb 5.12 in their now discontinued Ganda approach ...

“This is the first climbing shoe that I have tried and I am very ... As you may have noticed, a lot of brands use their own proprietary varieties of rubber (others use third-party rubbers ...

French footwear brand VEJA and Catalan accessories experts BUFF have just announced their first-ever collaboration, and it’s a beauty.The new BUFF x VEJA Fitz Roy walking shoe, launching today, takes ...

(As long as we are getting all semantic, we should note that it is most fittingly described as an approach shoe — you’ll have to change into yet more technical climbing shoes before attacking the crag ...

Those who climb indoors are doing something for their health. But climbing shoes contain chemicals of concern that can enter the lungs of climbers through the abrasion of the soles. A climbing ...

One of the biggest gear inventions to come out of the Dawn Wall climb was the TC Pro LaSportiva climbing shoe that allowed Caldwell to find footing on the smallest of holds. The new shoe ...