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Gear Review: Black Diamond Ozone Harness

Sam Davies

Steep jughauls, technical slabs or vertical pockets—when it comes to sport climbing, the Black Diamond Ozone harness is built to take on the full spectrum of bolt-protected challenges. Featuring Kinetic...

Gear Review: Black Diamond Ozone Harness

Sam Davies

Steep jughauls, technical slabs or vertical pockets—when it comes to sport climbing, the Black Diamond Ozone harness is built to take on the full spectrum of bolt-protected challenges. Featuring Kinetic...

Gear Review: Black Diamond Primrose Harness

Sam Davies

For all-around climbers who know that time spent fiddling with leg loops and adjusting a pinching waist belt is time wasted, the Black Diamond Primrose delivers a time-saving design for...

Gear Review: Black Diamond Primrose Harness

Sam Davies

For all-around climbers who know that time spent fiddling with leg loops and adjusting a pinching waist belt is time wasted, the Black Diamond Primrose delivers a time-saving design for...

Gear Review: Edelweiss Rocklight 9.8mm

Sam Davies

The Edelweiss Rocklight rope is part of the Edelweiss Essential Line. A range of ropes developed for top performance at a bargain price. The Rocklight is 9.8mm in diameter to...

Gear Review: Edelweiss Rocklight 9.8mm

Sam Davies

The Edelweiss Rocklight rope is part of the Edelweiss Essential Line. A range of ropes developed for top performance at a bargain price. The Rocklight is 9.8mm in diameter to...

Gear Review: Evolv Shaman LV

Sam Davies

The Shaman LV from Evolv is an aggressive climbing shoe for overhanging sport climbs, bouldering, and technical face climbing, with a last that will fit men or women with low...

Gear Review: Evolv Shaman LV

Sam Davies

The Shaman LV from Evolv is an aggressive climbing shoe for overhanging sport climbs, bouldering, and technical face climbing, with a last that will fit men or women with low...

Gear Review: Petzl Grigri 2

Sam Davies

A belay device so famous, it has its own Wikipedia article. The Petzl GriGri was introduced to the world in 1991 as the very first assisted-braking belay device. Today, it...

Gear Review: Petzl Grigri 2

Sam Davies

A belay device so famous, it has its own Wikipedia article. The Petzl GriGri was introduced to the world in 1991 as the very first assisted-braking belay device. Today, it...

Gear Review: La Sportiva Futura

Sam Davies

Welcome to the future. The La Sportiva Futura is based on a revolutionary new philosophy of construction, based on the absence of the usual "edges" of the sole and the...

Gear Review: La Sportiva Futura

Sam Davies

Welcome to the future. The La Sportiva Futura is based on a revolutionary new philosophy of construction, based on the absence of the usual "edges" of the sole and the...