Many people have tried to teach me how to do dynos. But for someone like me, who struggles with movement, my brain can’t make my body follow their directions. Then my climbing partner gave me a power spot and everything changed!
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Five Asian American-led outdoor groups that are helping reshape the industry.
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In the past year, I learned the importance of a good spotter. Having a good relationship with your spotter can give you the confidence to try difficult moves high off the ground.
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“Dealing with mental health issues and having to constantly put on a mask and code switch to survive in a place that’s outside of my culture—all while being one of a handful of Black people in my field—has been stressful.”
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“For most of my life, [bipolar disorder] always felt like a dark, shameful secret, like a big flaw. Then I hit my mid-thirties and was like, screw it, I’m done. I don’t want to pretend any more.”
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As I have worked through decolonizing my own relationship with nature, I have learned that our obsession with summits is obsolete. In fact—it is problematic.
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The summers get pretty hot here in the Southwest. So what’s a climber to do when heat makes it harder for your hands to hold on and easier for your feet to slip? Sunburns and zapped energy are also part of the struggle. But you don’t have to stay indoors all summer. Here are a few tricks that I use to keep me climbing throughout the summer in the high desert heat!!
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Usually as climbers, we concentrate on arm strength, but strong legs are just as important! Here are five exercises to improve your heel hook and toe down ability!
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Here are 4 tips for dealing with internalized racism that will allow you to experience BIPOC community and the outdoors fully. Your family might even come along too.
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This summer my partner James and I took on the task of designing and building our own backyard climbing wall. Here are several lessons we learned along the way!
Front Levers may not be fun but they are great core exercises and very useful for roof climbing. Here are five exercises that will improve your climbing and will progress you to doing a full front lever.
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The second installment on how to improve your pull power! These exercises are a bit more challenging!
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Want to diversify your Instagram feed? We can help! Check out our list of 16 Black Women & Non-Binary Climbers to Follow on Instagram!
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In less than 48 hrs, a fundraiser started by a Vancouver based climber raised over $100,000 to help save a queer Black woman owned climbing gym - the only one of its kind in the U.S. - after it faced permanent closure due to pandemic related financial hardship.
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Abby Dione became the first Black woman in the United States to own an indoor rock climbing gym when she purchased Coral Cliffs in 2011. Here’s why that matters.
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Given the Covid-19 pandemic, many people are stuck at home with just a pull-up bar. Not to worry, here are some tips for improving your pull-up!
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Learn how Washington-based nonprofit Climbers of Color is centering BIPOC voices in the outdoors and redefining what it means to be a leader in mountaineering.
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Three years ago, my friend asked, “do you want to go ice climbing with me?” I laughed loudly, saying, “I get cold in 75 degree weather! I would never survive in such cold temps. I’m a southerner!” For the next two years, I refused their offer. Then out of the blue, something changed.
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She described herself as feeling much more self-aware and much more nervous on her second BASE jump. But then she thought about how she had almost died while driving to work one day in Arizona—a rollover accident that left her with eight pins and a plate in her leg—and she decided to take the leap
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