Barefoot shoes might mean you’re slower and more ... Our feet meet the ground in various ways depending on whether we’re climbing a hill, descending a steep slope, hopping over tree roots ...

Modern climbers have the opposite problem. Go to any outdoor recreation store and prepare to be overwhelmed by shelves of cutting-edge climbing shoes and marketing gibberish. That’s how I felt ...

And perhaps he’s even getting close to new horizons, as he evidently climbs far better barefoot that with climbing shoes on (for the record, with shoes so far he’s sent “only” 8A boulder). The time ...

A REVOLUTIONARY mountaineer who invented the five-fingered climbing shoe has plunged ... without compromising sensory ground feedback". The "barefoot" shoes were worked on from 1999 until they ...