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 ...

Many other shoe brands, including Tenaya and SCARPA, also use XS Edge and XS Grip rubber. There is a lot of debate in the climbing shoe world about which shoes have the best rubber. All of the ...

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 ...

Don't just sample different brands and styles ... with soft rubber will be a more comfortable shoe for anyone who isn’t accustomed to how climbing shoes fit. As far as specific models go ...

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 ...