Jeff Jackson

Touted by Sportiva as “the highest performance climbing shoe on the market,” the Genius incorporates the latest of Sportiva’s thinking—No-Edge technology, P3 randing and asymmetrical lacing—into one package.

Field Tested: The new Five Ten Quantum rock climbing shoe.

The Legacy Bolt is the first fully removable hanger/bolt combo. The Legacy is made of high-grade stainless steel, meets the UIAA standard of 20 kN for tension loading, and is placed nearly the same way as your standard mechanical bolt.

The Furias, as you would expect from Scarpa, are extremely well made. This is one of Scarpa’s top-end shoes, geared for performance on steep terrain. Indeed, I dig them for steep sport climbing, bouldering and even low-angle smearing. They’re sensitive, and that’s OK.

The magic behind the Nano Air is in the insulation, called 60-g FullRange. It’s light and stretches, but also offers good warmth and retains loft when wet.

Field Test report of the new glue-in Wave Bolt, by ClimbTech.

Review of Black Diamond's NForce ascender for big wall and aid climbing.

Used to be if you wanted to work a route, you had to find a partner willing to belay your sorry butt for hours.

Which is more difficult, building a time machine that works, or unraveling and fitting a typical kid’s full-body harness?

"Magic Ed" Wright, guidebook author, prolific new router, and hospitable heart of the Potrero Chico climbing scene, suffers fatal heart attack. He once wrote, for Rock and Ice, about the heart attack he experienced on a 600-foot wall.

It was spring break. My wife had taken the kids to Florida. I felt like a teenager home alone with the keys to the car. The possibilities were dizzying...

Rock and Ice editor, Jeff Jackson, discovers some "magical" climbing in Hawaii.