Climbing

Climbing athlete, Remy Franklin, took a trip to South Africa to climb at the Rocklands Bouldering Area. In this blog, he provides detailed information and tips for first-time visitors.

The climbing world has a whole dictionary of words and phrases used for different things. When you first start climbing, it can be a bit overwhelming hearing everyone use all these terms that you’ve never heard before. In this blog, we’ll go over a bunch of the basic climbing terms to get you started!

Warming up before exercising is important to loosen up your muscles and help prevent injuries. We met up with athlete and climbing coach, Tash Hodges, to learn what warm-ups she likes to do before climbing.

Edelweiss Athletes Bronwyn Hodgins, Jacob Cook, and Angela Vanwiemeersch, along with friends Kelsey Watts, Jaron Pham, and Zach Goldberg-Poch took a trip to Greenland in August of 2022. For 65 days, they kayaked the west coast of Greenland and climbed granite cliffs rising out of the Arctic Ocean. This is a short film highlighting one of those climbs.

It is important to choose the correct type of rope when you are climbing. This blog describes the three types of dynamic climbing ropes and why you might need one over the other.

Grivel and Edelweiss Athlete, Stefan Hadeed, shares his experience trying to find a new route to climb on Mount Hooker in the Wind River Range. He describes how he loves that climbers are always students of the craft, and that it's a labor of love.