Most of us have become so accustomed to dropping onto bolts that we now fall more often than we send. This casualness has trickled down to belayers, who scratch their dogs and lounge in lawn chairs as ...

Today’s “I can’t believe it, but it actually happened,” tale from a reader. I went climbing with a new partner. He was a 5.13+ leader, so I didn’t put too much thought into his belay technique until I ...

When you want to increase your vertical adventure to a multipitch route and not limit yourself to single pitch routes at the crag, one may start thinking about the idea of multipitch routes. The ...

The Petzl NEOX solves the critical issue with most assisted braking belay devices — unwanted rope locking when feeding slack.