Brian Doscher fell in love with rock climbing at Iowa State. Now he's back in Ames, where he's opened the community's 1st ...

He was headed to the "Middle Earth" area to establish a first ascent before the rest of his climbing group arrived.

The indoor climbing industry has boomed in the past few years, with a 76% increase in the number of climbing gyms in the ...

Rock climbing is an activity where participants climb up, down or across natural rocks or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit or the endpoint of a route without falling.

Rock climbing has increased in popularity as both a recreational physical activity and a competitive sport. Climbing is physiologically unique in requiring sustained and intermittent isometric forearm ...

Researchers have explored how integrating machine and deep learning techniques can create a standardized system for evaluating rock climbing routes to provide a difficulty grading scale that promotes ...