Climbing Boots

"When compared with a typical ice boot, the Lowa Ice Rocket GTX is so light, agile and climber-friendly it feels like cheating."

All the things that made the Phantom Tech’s ancestor a favorite among ice and mixed climbers remain, while the improvements to the new version elevate it to new levels of technical mastery.

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The La Sportiva Trango Ice Cube GTX is a lightweight alpine boot, perfect for mixed climbing or light and fast missions.

The La Sportiva Trango Ice Cube GTX is a lightweight alpine boot, perfect for mixed climbing or light and fast missions.

Garmont has got a lot of things right with these lightweight and comfortable technical mountaineering boots.

Once upon a time, women’s ice-climbing and mountaineering boots were a misnomer— women’s boots didn’t exist, and when they finally came on the market they were often just smaller versions of men’s boots. Enter the women’s Asolo 6B+ GV: an ice-climbing and mountaineering boot with the unique shape of the female foot and ankle in mind.

This is the best-fitting boot I’ve yet worn. The stretchy foam inner boot sucks onto your foot like an eel’s throat, and by itself makes a nice camp bootie. When the inner is in the outer, the package feels soft and accommodating, but crank down the laces and the Velcro ankle strap, and the AR will frontpoint with only scant heel lift, the mark of a hardcore climbing boot.

Field test report for the Scarpa Rebel Ultra GTX Mountain Boot Review.

I tested the Eigers all winter and the boots performed well on mediums as disparate as high-angle gullies, waterfall ice and mixed climbs.

The Salewa Pro Gaiter is the best answer yet to the question: “What boots do I take when I must walk to the dance?”