BACKGROUND Adult elite competitive rock climbers are small in stature with low body mass and very low body fat percentage. These characteristics have generated concern that young climbers may attempt body mass reduction to extreme levels with adverse consequences for health and performance. No published anthropometry data for young competitive climbers exist. OBJECTIVE To describe the general...

Flow is a state of optimal experience in which people get fully absorbed by a smoothly running activity that they pursue for the sake of it. Based on the classical approach to motivation, recent theoretical considerations suggest that incentives provided by the current activity that are congruent with one’s implicit motives will lead to flow. In a field experiment, we examined wall climbers’ ac...

The last few years have been eventful as far mountaineering in Yosemite is concerned with the soloing of el Cap and freeing Dawn Wall. documentary film Valley Uprising: Yosemite’s Rock Climbing Revolution (Mortimer et al. 2014) not only traces history climbing Park but offers a more profound analysis evolution society gender roles America half-century, showing that, although fairly isolated fro...

Abstract The underlying principle of the unique dynamic adaptive adhesion capability a rock-climbing fish (Beaufortia kweichowensis) that can resist pull-off force 1000 times its weight while achieving simultaneous fast sliding (7.83 body lengths per second) remains mystery in open literature. This adhesion-sliding ability has long been sought for underwater robots. However, strong surface and ...