How To

"​I was toproping indoors, fell about three feet and felt a sharp pinch near where my penis meets my abdomen."

From thumb-down jams to pinkie-down jams to donut jams, from finger bars to ring locks to tips cracks, there's lots of technique to be learned in just finger-sized cracks (to say nothing of all the other sizes!). Don't worry---Pete Whittaker's got you covered. He breaks it all down as simply as possible.

Dr. J takes a look at one of climbing's most under-diagnosed injuries: finger stress fractures.

I snapped the peroneal retinaculum on my right ankle while high stepping. Have you ever seen a climber who has gone through this injury? Has the person snapped it again?

His death has shocked the climbing community in Squamish and the areas he visited, such as Liming, China.

Last weekend, when Carlo Alberto Cimenti saw his partner, Francesco Cassardo, take an unsurvivable fall during an attempt on the unclimbed Gasherbrum VII, in Pakistan, he was sure his friend was dead. Even if he had survived, getting him down would take a miracle.

A month ago, I thought I tore the A4 pulley in my ring finger. The x-rays and ultrasounds showed no tendon tear, however, but an avulsion fracture.

I had an accident eight weeks ago where I fell from my skateboard. My wrist hurt for three to four weeks. I went to a hand doctor and had an MRI (without dye) that showed a TFCC tear.

Bunion operations have progressed greatly in the last 20 years. What used to be basic carpentry is now more about engineering, and can produce both an aesthetically pleasing and functional outcome.

Two cams pull, sending climber into a tree.

A pain in your hand may have you think you sustained a finger injury from pulling hard, but you might have Dupuytren’s disease.

Complacency can cause accidents when you let your guard down, even for a second.