For the latter, many have turned to 3D printers to create more rock-like climbing grips but plastic doesn’t tend to behave the same as rock unless you do what [Giles Barton-Owen] did and ...

The very first section of the wall built in 1983 was a classic wooden vertical structure. There were no commercially available climbing holds at the time so we used wooden holds, machined holds out of ...

Good thing for Team USA, as Sam Watson beat his own speed rock climbing world record—set back in April at the ... scampering up a series of holds toward a red buzzer at the top of the route.