Alex Honnold sat down with WIRED to answer a few questions posed from random internet strangers. He delivered some interesting responses.

Josh Larson was about 14 years old when he went to a carnival and decided to give the climbing wall a whirl. It was nothing major—about 25 feet, he recalls—but the instructor was impressed and made a ...

Geyikbayiri and the Antalya region are important climbing areas and, with some 1,500 routes, have more than any other part of Turkey. But there are more than 1.25 million climbing routes around 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 the ...

The sport doesn’t just have physical benefits—it’s a mental game. “Rock climbing fires every system of the body and mind.” A man boulders to the top of the Aguille de Joshua Tree in Joshua Tree ...