Editor’s Note: Evolv recently announced that preorders of its Ashima x Brain Dead Zenist climbing shoe neared 600 pairs and raised over $50,000 to be donated to DEI organizations focusing on climbing.

Not all collaborations from The North Face make sense (ahem, Gucci) but when they team up with some of the world's best climbers to find out what they want from an approach shoe, we're all ears.

My feet hate me. First World problem? You betcha. Forget all you know about how to find, and fit, your next climbing shoe. Most of the information out there is junk. This is your first and last guide.

So when my Dad took me to get my first pair of "real" climbing shoes, we were pretty lost. It didn't help that the man running the shoe floor was unwilling to give attention to a 9-year-old girl ...

(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 ...

Ten years and a bunch of different climbing-shoe models later, I bought another pair of Moccasyms. Today you can still buy them. And for certain kinds of climbing (granite friction slabs and ...