The original Five Ten Dragon Velcro has been reincarnated as a powerful and highly aggressive instrument of precision, the Blackwing. With a few new tweaks to the proven Dragon, the Blackwing is sure to win over the cult following of its predecessor....

I'm hard on boots. Seams rip within days and soles delaminate. I can breach a pair of approach shoes in a week of jugging and scrambling. Sound familiar?...

Now available in a lace version, the Coyote is an entry-level face-climbing shoe, featuring precision lacing nearly to the tip of the toes and a blunt chisel toe....

When Five Ten released the original Dragon, which sported a Velcro closure system and an aggressive, down-turned toe box, the shoe gained a following among core cave dwellers and others dabbling in the thuggish art of steep climbing....

The Exum Guide was designed with input from one of America’s oldest guide services, Exum Mountain Guides in Wyoming. ...

The Galileo, essentially an updated version of Five Ten's time-tested Anasazi Velcro, is the first Five Ten shoe with its new Onyx rubber, a compound touted as Five Ten's stickiest and most durable....

I was all set to hate this shoe. Affordable and cushy comfortable -- surely it would climb like a stale hot dog bun. Wrong!...

I've worn various climbing shoes and wished that they were better at this or that -- heel hooks, dime edges, smearing and so on. But I've never donned a shoe and thought, I wish these shoes would outside edge better....

We loved this shoe. It's comfortable but not clunky -- and has more edging power than Bode Miller's skis. One secret is the Oreo cookie-style layer of white stuff sandwiched into the sole....

This new kick from Five Ten is one of the best all-day all-around all-performance climbing shoes I've worn recently and by a mile (ho ho). The VMile is built to go the distance on cracks, slabs, steeps -- and whatever else America's great multi-pitch areas toss your way....

The Anasazi, a favorite among sport climbers and boulderers because of its grabby rubber, down-turned toe and lightweight yet supportive design, now comes in a women's version....

If you’ve ever wanted to dance on ice, the new Kayland M11 boots might be your magic slippers. At two pounds one ounce each, these babies are remarkably warm for their weight....

Imagine a world where hard cash grew on berry bushes; where climbing shoes were both high performance and comfortable, and worked equally well for multi-pitch trad, sport routes and bouldering....

Slippers get my vote as the best type of shoes to wear indoors. They’re easy to get on and off. Most important, they’re soft with little support, helping you to build the toe strength you’ll need to climb outdoors. ...

If you dipped your barefeet into a bucket of liquid rubber (yes, this has been tried) then went climbing you’d get roughly the same sensation as you would wearing La Sportiva’s new slipper the Speedster—the softest shoe I’ve ever worn and one of the very few that you can actually bend with your foot....

A little over a year ago Tommy Caldwell and Justen Sjong established the most sustained free route on El Cap when they romped up Magic Mushroom, left of the Nose. ...

The Tora is one of La Sportiva’s three new price-point shoes, and our favorite of the bunch....

As the name implies, the Tradmaster reigns over the crack kingdom....

The Venom loves bouldering and hisses with pleasure when the angle gets steep. ...

With the Katana, La Sportiva has made a low-volume heel that doesn’t pop off your foot. A tensioned rubber rand cinches the heel, while side indentations contour to the narrow shape of a woman’s foot....