Up, up, up the 30-foot rock wall at the rock-climbing venue in Island Rock in Plainview went Sara Glasser, reaching about the halfway point before allowing the strong ropes to bring her back to the ...

I’ve never enjoyed walking into a gym. Growing up as a fat kid, I have enough traumatic memories around exercise to fill several therapy sessions. On top of the shame I had around my body, I also have ...

In the eighties, nineties, and much of the early aughts, rock climbing gyms were little more than training grounds where climbers honed their skills in preparation for objectives on real rock. But ...

There’s a point in pushing physical and mental limits when most people call it quits. This usually occurs between the phrases “This is no fun” and “I feel like I’m physically dying.” It’s that line ...

Meteora is a complex of imposing dark rocks, rising over the settlements of Kalampaka and the picturesque Kastraki village, on the plain of Thessaly, Greece. There are approximately 900 multi-pitch ...

Watching climbing at the Paris Olympics makes it seem as if it’s a sport that would be completely out of the question for a weekend athlete. The speed, strength and dexterity with which the ...