What amazed me most about the video of rock-climbing bears that showed up on Gizmodo last week was not that the bears were climbing up vertical rock — it was their technique. I’ve been indoor ...

When French climbing ace J.B. Tribout came to check out the sport climbing in the United States in 1992, he went to Smith Rock. And when he managed to pull off Just Do It at 5.14c, it stood as ...