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CURRENT PRICES END MAY 12 Outside Festival feat. Thundercat and Fleet Foxes. FROM JUST $44 CURRENT PRICES END MAY 12 Outside Festival feat. Thundercat and Fleet Foxes. FROM JUST $44 Climbing Powered by Outside Community Outside Feed Outside Feed Skills News Gear Places People Pics Videos Gym Climbing Community Magazine More Don’t miss new content! Follow the brand to see our content on your activity feed! The Best Harnesses for Hard Sport and Long Days in the Alpine Whether you’re shopping for a sport climbing harness or something to keep you going on big walls, we’ve got what you’re looking for right here Mary Andino Why Do So Many Climbers Not Wear Helmets? Dougald MacDonald Are Bolt-On Holds on Rock Better” Than Chipping? Matt Samet Dedicated Climber and Forest Ranger Robbi Mecus Remembered After Fatal Fall in Alaska Eva Holland Beth Rodden was a Visionary Yosemite Climber. Now, She Introduces the Rest of Herself Mary Andino Editor’s Picks An Incomplete List of Alex Honnold’s Less Famous Badassery An Ode to the Spray Wall Editor’s Picks The Definitive Profile of Yosemite Legend Steve Roper Dirtbagging Isn’t Dead. You Just Have to Squint a Little. Latest Videos Weekend Whipper: Climbing Helmets Exist for a Reason Especially if your guide doesn’t correct your mistakes. Climbing Staff Published May 10, 2024 People Jimmie Dunn’s Epic Free-Climbing Attempt in the Black Canyon "We hadn’t accomplished our goal of free-climbing ’The Diagonal,’ but it was one of the wildest days of my life. After that, I stopped climbing for a few months, spooked." Jimmie Dunn Published May 10, 2024 People Told at Last: Stories from Darjeeling’s High-Altitude Climbing Community This painstakingly researched new book collects the forgotten histories of mountaineerings often-overlooked high-altitude workers Deepa Balsavar , Nandini Purandare Published May 9, 2024 Gear The Best Helmets for Every Climber (Even if You Hate Helmets) Our favorite helmets of the year are so light and comfortable, there’s no excuse to climb without one Jude Coleman , Ula Chrobak Published May 8, 2024 Gym Climbing Tired of Dirtbagging? How to Go from Crag to Gym Rock climbing is hard. If you’re tired of toughing it out in the great outdoors, here is how to acclimate to gym life. Eleanor Krause Published May 8, 2024 Sport Climbing Best to Avoid These 5 Common Gym-to-Crag Mistakes Climbing gyms make fantastic training and practice environments, but they also reward some bad habits that can be downright unsafe outside. Jump-start your transition to outdoor master by avoiding these five common mistakes. Blake Herrington Published May 7, 2024 People An Ill-Advised Attempt of the Canadian Rockies’ Highest Peak What’s the biggest, baddest mountain around here?” a youthfully ignorant Jim Donini asked. Geoff Powter Published May 7, 2024 Skills Want to Climb Harder? Train Dynamically. There’s a time and place for static moves. But what do of the world’s strongest climbers have in common? They are very good at moving dynamically. Neil Gresham Published May 6, 2024 People Why One of Climbing’s Best YouTubers Hasn’t Gone Full-time Sam Lawson’s Wedge Climbing is is one of the most artful climbing channels on YouTube. But he worries that relying his passion for his livelihood would potentially ruin it for me.” We asked why. Steven Potter Published May 3, 2024 People How an Ordinary 5.8 Saved My Life In a sport that basically invented the phrase inherent risk,” death is common. Yet for all the stories about lives lost to climbing, there are many, many more lives that have been saved by climbs. Andrew Bisharat Published May 3, 2024 See All Training The Training Bible: A Complete One-Year Training Plan This eight-phase (12-month) training series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous one. Editors’ Picks The Secret to Training Endurance? Ditch the Rope. 5 Training Myths That Are Probably Hurting You Are Most Climbers Getting Fingerboard Training Wrong? (Part 1) View More Technique Moving Fast Means Climbing More: Alex Honnold’s Favorite Efficiency Tricks Honnold is famous for (among other things) cramming as much climbing as he can into each day. To do so, he’s developed some efficiency tricks that the rest of us can imitate. Editors’ Picks 7 Tricks for Speedy Swaps at Multi-pitch Belays The Power in a PSATTTTTTTT!” The Three Things I Wish I’d Been Told as a Beginning Climber View More Longreads Ripcord: A Story of Fame, Love, and Tragedy The void swallowed him alive, his streaking form more easily imagined than described. The air froze in my chest. Editors’ Picks A Remembrance of My Favorite Crag Dog How Ukrainian Climbers Traded Mountains For War Guidebooks Are Still a Problem Weekend Whippers Weekend Whipper: Ice Soloist Lets Go of Both Axes and Decks. (He Lives.) There are two miracles in this week’s whipper: 1) He survived. 2) He caught the fall on video. Editors’ Picks Weekend Whipper: Falling Ice Causes Upside-Down Gear Ripper Weekend Whipper: Elvis Leg + Indecision = Upside-Down Ground Fall Our Top 10 Weekend Whippers of 2021, From Harrowing to Hilarious View More Gear How To Choose, Fit, And Break In Rock Shoes Stop wasting your money on shoes that don’t fit or are painful or fail you. Don’t be disappointed again. Here’s how to buy what’ just right, just for you. Editors’ Picks Resoling and Shoe-Care 101 Want Your Cams to Last Forever? Here’s How How to Choose the Perfect All-Around Rock Shoe for You View More People What Ever Happened to Mason Earle? When one of the world’s best crack climbers was grounded by chronic fatigue syndrome, his life became an uphill struggle just to feel human again. Editors’ Picks My Dinner With Anderl Heckmair—Leader of Eiger North Face FA Are You a Crag Boss”—and if So, Which Type? The First Woman to Send 5.14b, 5.14c, and 5.14d/15a No Longer Feels the Need to Climb View More Outside Apps Gaia GPS Get off the beaten path, and stay found. Download Trailforks Discover the best trails in the world. Download Outside TV Unlock 600+ hours of ad-free films and series. Download Outside Unlock 15+ outdoor publications all in one app. Download Our Most Popular Article They Climbed On a Home Depot Rope—Thought A Real Rope Was Too Expensive They figured they knew enough about climbing to wing it, but took a dangerous risk that could have cost them. Kevin Corrigan Published May 13, 2024 During my senior year of high school, my friends and I were bored. We decided we collectively knew enough about climbing for it to be safe. We went to the local outfitter and bought harnesses, carabiners, and belay devices, but we scoffed at the price of a rope. It was way outside our budget. Instead, we went to Home Depot and bought 100 feet of poly cord that was rated for 200 pounds. We climbed on that rope all day, just easy 5.3 climbing on toprope. I’ve included a couple photos. It wasn’t until I was lowering at the end of the day that I realized what a mistake I’d made. The 100-foot rope had stretched to about 200 feet, shrinking to the size of 8mm cord. I bought a real climbing rope the following week. Wanted to share because we are all new at some point and even with the best intentions mistakes are made. We should collectively work together to improve safety across the sport. I wish someone would have stopped us from climbing on that poly rope. —Kyle Harris, via email — LESSON: Modern climbing ropes include a number of climber-friendly features. They can hold thousands of pounds of force. They have durable sheaths that prevent abrasion and cutting. They have the ideal amount of stretch to catch a fall softly, and then bounce back to their original length and diameter. They’re supple and easy to tie and untie. They’re tested to meet rigorous safety standards. And they work great with modern belay devices. A random hardware store rope is not designed with any of these goals in mind, and can’t be expected to meet...