I swung my brake hand hard against my hip and flew 20 feet up to an ice screw. The fall by Peter Athans, 185 pounds of muscle, through space off the famous Fang ice climb in Vail, Colorado, ripped the ...

When you want to increase your vertical adventure to a multipitch route and not limit yourself to single pitch routes at the crag, one may start thinking about the idea of multipitch routes. The ...

Every assisted braking device (ABD) can inadvertently lock the rope to varying degrees when quickly feeding out slack to a lead climber. Petzl has mostly solved this dilemma with the NEOX. When an ABD ...