Climbing Shoes

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A supportive shoe designed for steep and technical sport or bouldering and for ultimate edging power.

A shoe designed for short, steep bouldering and sport climbing.

A downturned, aggressive shoe made for steep climbing and sending your project.

An performance oriented shoe with all the right features: comfort, pliability, and structure.

The Gambit, with its reasonably stiff, non-aggressive, low-tension design, is comfortable on long routes and is a great all-round shoe for beginner to intermediate climbers.

The Scarpa Drago is the Ferrari LaFerrari of climbing shoes—it’s sleek and sexy, and it radiates performance. It’s a supershoe.

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 Women’s Sparrow is Lowa's first performance shoe specifically designed for women.

The Mad Rock Lotus is a women’s specific performance slipper that has been designed for “tackling comps and especially overhanging terrain."