ESTES PARK, Colo. — In a valley surrounded by breathtaking mountains, Wendy Howell and a dozen other climbers were indoors one August afternoon, scaling the artificial rock walls of the Estes Park ...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A new Holland-area climbing gym promises a friendly, unintimidating space for climbers of all levels. It offers 5,100 square feet of climbing terrain, a café and a ...

Climbers tend to be an ecologically sensitive group. But they clamber on constantly changing routes in climbing gyms, potentially unconcerned about the sustainability of the thousands of polyurethane ...

The climbing industry has boomed over the last decade. Impressive establishments have cropped up across corporate America, and they purport to cater to all. Climbing gyms appeal to a health-centric ...

Erik Cline is a longtime indoor rock-climber who feels something is missing on Long Island: a sufficient number of places to climb. So, the Setauket resident decided to do something about it. He and ...

Lead climb instructor Jospeh Ibarra of Richardson ascends a vaulted wall at Movement Gym, a climbing, yoga & fitness center, in the Design District of Dallas, August 21, 2025. Ibarra joined a friend ...

GRAND CHUTE — Odyssey Climbing and Fitness gym will bring an indoor climbing experience to the Fox Cities when it opens its second location, in Grand Chute. The indoor gym first opened in Aushwaubenon ...

The Bouldering Project’s newest gym opens Saturday in St. Paul with some of the steepest indoor climbing terrain in the Twin ...

Climbing gyms might be teeming with toxic rubber particles, recent research suggests. The study found high levels of rubber additives in the air and dust of two climbing gyms, likely coming from the ...

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, several people hung upside down in a Bushwick, Brooklyn, warehouse. This wasn’t a rehearsal for a revival of the doomed Spiderman play, but people pulling on plastic ...