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Why I Actually Think Fashion Labels Won't Send Me Their New "Climbing” Gear to Test
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (269+ words) Aha! My way in! I have written about approach shoes for seven years and consider myself an entirely self-appointed expert. Surely Prada or Loewe would want to know what I thought of their $1,100 kicks, right? I was shocked to learn…...
Meet the Climber Making the First "Real" Crack Climbing Shoe By Hand
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1910+ words) This article was originally published on April 17, 2025. In late March 2025, in Salt Lake City, in the same garage where he spent two years training for the hardest offwidth in the world, 34-year-old Danny Parker turns away from his work bench…...
This Barefoot Rock Climbing Shoe Is My New Secret Slab Weapon
3+ week, 6+ day ago (909+ words) About a year ago, I heard about a “barefoot” climbing shoe that purported to be a boon on slab and comfortable beyond any climber’s wildest dreams. Launched toward the end of 2023, the Saltic Eliot appears to be the first barefoot…...
Put Your Rock Shoes in the Oven—You'll Thank Us
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (282+ words) I grew up in a gym. I learned my first curse words on a chalky, sweat-stained gym mat. I got my first tattoo with the friends I did four-by-fours with. First boyfriend, even. As I complained loudly (and probably all…...
Is It Possible to Tailor an Elite Climbing Shoe to the Masses? La Sportiva Tried—With Some Success
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (226+ words) One of my first sport-climbing mentors was Jean Delataillade, a French ex-pat living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who’d imported his country’s top-down bolting tactics to our desert state’s welded tuff. Jean was tall and lean, with fingers of steel…...
Could it Be? An Affordable Shoe That Actually Climbs Well?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (993+ words) Climbing Magazine The All-New Ocun Jett S is an Affordable Gym-Climbing Beast My buddy Brandon Fields and I may not be the best testers for the single-strap-closure Ocun Jett S. This bouldering/training slipper’s long, narrow, pointy last is designed primarily…...
A New Shoe Rubber Is Made From F1 Racing Tires—But Is It Any Good?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (948+ words) Ratom’s new shoe rubber was destined to go viral. Rub two shoes with a swatch of the rubber together, give them a firm press, and voilà, they stick together with gravity-defying magic. Max Fisher, a Flagstaff-area resoler with early access…...
We Climbed 37,000 Vertical Feet to Find the Best New Rock Shoes—Here Are Our Top 9
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (1841+ words) We tested a dozen new shoes—not to mention the dozens of others we’ve tested over the years—on a combined 37,400 vertical feet, from Illinois to Spain. This year’s nine best climbing shoes run the gamut, for both indoors and…...