Sport Climbing Rope Review 2021

• Posted on 8 April 2021
• By Eric Hughes - Climb On Staff Member
• Posted in Ropes, Sport Climbing

Sport climbing only requires a few key pieces of gear; shoes, harness, belay device, draws, chalk and most essentially a rope. This review focusses on six of the best available for the 2021 season. The Climb On buying team select the best designed ropes from the leading manufacturers for all the climbing disciplines but always bring in sport climbing speciality ropes. This review looks at a selection of ropes from pure performance lines suitable for red point attempts to thicker work horses suitable for dogging and top-roping.

Bouldering Shoe Review 2021

• Posted on 24 February 2021
• By Eric Hughes - Climb On Staff Member
• Posted in Boreal Satori, Bouldering, Climbing shoes, Five Ten Crawe, La Sportiva Solution Comp, Scarpa Instinct, Tenaya Mastia, Unparallel TN Pro

Every spring the latest bouldering shoes hit the shelves with claims of better performance, new technologies and amazing designs. We have hand selected six of the best new products to arrive in 2021 and have headed out bouldering to test these shoes. Our testers are all accomplished climbers and gear-heads who have provided honest opinions. Here are the top six shoes for bouldering compared in an easy-to-use format.