World's Tallest Climbing Wall

The world's tallest climbing wall is in Groningen, Netherlands. It's a 37-meter (121 feet) tall climbing tower, and was constructed in 2004. It's called the Excalibur and is located within theBjoeks climbing centre that features an indoor climbing wall. Because of the tower’s curved design, the concave portion of the tower that features a steep overhang of 11 meters (36 feet.) 

Hangboards

One of the best ways to train at home (that is, unless you have a home rock climbing gym,) is to have a hang board. The best hang boards have everything - jugs, crimps, pinches, and slopers. Some workouts on hangboard are:

• hang for a minute, move one hand every 5-10 seconds, rest for 30 secs, repeat.
• hang one minute, off 20 secs, repeat
• pull ups
• pull lock-offs
• frenchies

You can get hang boards from most climbing sport stores - ems, moosejaw, metollius, or amazon all sell hang boards. 

Here's a diagram of a metollius hangboard (around $80) :

Half Dome

Half Dome is one of the biggest rock formations in Yosemite. It's known for the free solo ascent by Alex Honnold (pictured below.)

Reel Rock Films

If you haven't checked out the Reel Rock Films yet, you totally should. They're created by Big Up Productions and they're all awesome.

Here's the website link

And this is the trailer for one of their movies: 

The Gunks

The Shawsangunks, 90 miles north from New York City and one of the best climbing spots in the North-East. The four main cliffs are Millbrook, the Near Trapps, The Trapps, and Skytop. The height of the cliffs varies, but the high point is around 300 feet.

El Capitan

El Capitan is a totally rad place to climbing for harder climbs. It's more than 3,000 feet and opposite Bridalveil Fall, in Mariposa County, California.

The first ascent of The Nose was in 1958 by Warren Harding, which is probably the most famous and popular route on el Cap.

Red River Gorge

Possibly one of the best place for climbing on the East coast in Kentucky, is Red River Gorge. There are tons of famous sport climbs like the Motherlode and Thanatopis(5.14b) that attract climbers from all over. There are also many easier routes and bouldering throughout, and, of course there's Migeul's Pizza. 

“I love the Red both for its beauty and its enormous climbing potential. Climbing there on a dry, sunny fall day is one of the most magical experiences a climber can have. It's world class.” –Emily Harrington, champion rock climber and North Face athlete

 (Above) Ben Spannuth from team Five Ten, on Golden Ticket, 5.14c. (Left) Kai Lightner climbing Southern Smoke (5.14c)

La Sportiva

La Sportiva is one of my favorite climbing gear brands. Their gear is all extremely well-made and trustworthy. I own a pair of La Sportiva shoes, and they're the best pair of shoes that I've had, compared to my other pairs which were 5.10 and evolv. The shoes are mostly all around $150, but for a really good quality pair of shoes it's totally worth it.


The La Sportiva Pro Climbing team also has some amazing climbers on it, including Alex Honnold, Daniel Woods, Matty Hong and Meagan Martin, among many others.


Here's the link to the La Sportiva website

Sierra Blair-Coyle

One of my all time favorite rock climbers is Sierra Blair-Coyle. She's 20, a two-time national champion as a junior, and a US Bouldering team member from 2010-2013. 

Sierra-Blair Coyle competing at the 2013 ABS National competition. She placed 18th.








Climbing at the Portland Bouldering Rally in 2013. She placed 6th.

Deep-Water soloing in Black Rock Maui, HI.

Here's her website.