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Testing: Friction Hitch Cords(Post)
As part of new product development and ongoing product testing, we conducted a series of static and dynamic tests of popular hitches commonly used in the arbor industry. The purpose of ...
Andy Cutler: Big Goals(Post)Climb: Pure Imagination (Red River Gorge) @acutclimbing Photos by: Dylan Connole @dconnole8 "Set a Goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can." Th ...
The Inaugural Rescue From Trees Program Training Recap(Post)Last month, we supported the first Rescue from Trees program, hosted by the Summit Township Fire Department in Jackson, Michigan. Sixteen firefighters, representing both career and volu ...
Who's Coming to Get You?(Post)Matt Wentzell Hit the SOS button, who's coming to get you? Matt Wentzell We’ve all been there, or perhaps know someone who has: climbing in a remote location and the weathe ...
Kevin Lindlau Sends "A Line Above the Sky" D15(Post)Photo taken by Joe Stylos Congratulations to Sterling Athlete Kevin Lindlau on sending his long-term project "A Line Above the Sky" D15 in the Italian Dolomites. This is significant ...
Few Things Stop Olivia Hsu. Including Pregnancy.(Post)Olivia Hsu, climbing 22 weeks pregnant, Cannibal Crag, Las Vegas, NV, Aero 9.2 mm. Photo: Botsy Phillips An elite-level climber, Olivia Hsu compares herself to her favorite Sterling ...
Tips for a Smooth Transition from Gym To Crag(Post)Leslie Timms a professional climbing guide Ontario, Canada DONT BE THE NEGLIGENT NEWBY! Educate yourself on the necessary skills and ethics that will make your transition from gym c ...
Monique Forestier Tames Tiger Cat(Post)Monique Forestier Tiger Cat (graded 33, 8c, 5.14b) My initial attempts on the 35-meter route called Tiger Cat (graded 33, 8c, 5.14b) were very encouraging indeed. I thought that this ...
A Primer on Certifications(Post)Marina Inoue It’s important to purchase your life-safety equipment from respected and certified manufacturers. Part of understanding this significance is knowing whether produc ...
Kevin and the Cave(Post)Sterling Athlete Kevin Lindlau Cinematographer Nathan Norby Sterling Athlete Kevin Lindlau met up with Cinematographer Nathan Norby is to make a short film on a new dry tooling route Ke ...
Training Report: NFPA Operations Level Rescue Training(Post)Overview – This training was held for Sterling staff with the purpose of familiarizing all in attendance with the standards, practices, tools, regulations, and lingo of rescue per ...
Onsighting Moonlight Buttress(Post)Felipe Nordenflycht @felipesh https://www.felipesh.com/ I have dreamt about trying to onsight Moonlight Buttress for years. This iconic route ascends a prominent prow of immaculate ...
Leslie Timms: Into the Mystic(Post)Despite the heat warnings in Squamish and a thick smoke that filled the air from BC wildfires, we stuck with the plan to climb a line that deeply peaked my curiosity. Described as a &ldqu ...
Why Dry? - Sterling XEROS(Post)A dry dynamic climbing line is a stronger and safer than a wet rope. It’s a fact. The merits of climbing with a dry rope are many and the pitfalls few. And now the prime pitfall, ...
XEROS Climbing Rope Review from Rob Pizem(Post)XEROS Review Part II Rob Pizem Piz wrote an in-depth initial review after 21,100 feet of climbing over the course of 13 intense days. You can read Part 1 of his review here: Read Ini ...
Mark Smiley: East Buttress, Middle-Triple Peak(Post)Mark Smiley Sterling Team Athlete The East Buttress of Middle Triple Peak has been on our mind for a while. Janelle and I both knew it would be one of the hardest climbs on the Fifty ...
PitchFest 1: Gaz in Jamaica(Post)Gaz in Jamaica Photo by Well Good Media I’ve always been curious. Curious of people, places, traditions, and outlooks. It is here that I am most easily able to see the beauty of l ...
Ben Rueck: Dental Floss and Shoe String(Post)Photo credit: Jeff Rueppel I was trapped. I traced the two lines attached to my harness back to China’s Zhangjiajie National Forest’s floor 60 meters below and gradually ...
Down and Out(Post)Down and Out Ben Rueck We are a company who supports failure. Without the expectation of falls, a slippery foot, or the hold that blows – we would not be the company who ultimatel ...
Capturing the Climb: Top Gear for Climbing Photographers(Post)Kieran Duncan - In my work as a rock climbing photographer, I spend a lot of time dangling on ropes in a harness packed with equipment. Some of it is for cameras, some for safety, and s ...
How Mountain Education Saved My Friend's Life(Post)Hayes Range in interior Alaska This spring, four of my closest friends and I were involved in a serious accident in the Hayes Range in interior Alaska. We were on the slopes of Mt. S ...
Interview Session with Kevin Jorgeson(Post)Sterling: What got you into climbing? Kevin: I went to the grand opening of my local climbing gym when I was 10. It was 1995, it was totally packed and I probably only got a few climbs ...
XEROS Climbing Rope Testing(Post)Sterling Athlete Rob Pizem climbed over 100,000 vertical feet on an early prototype sample of XEROS and never even trimmed the ends. He did this as an extreme test of durability. We do ...
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