Since rock climbing equipment has seen advancement in its safety features, many people show their interest into performing this sport and reach mountain routes they have never imagined of reaching. Due to the newly introduced techniques into bolting and Cams creation, rock climbing has become a more accessible sport to many categories of climbers.

You may be tempted to consider performing rock climbing by joining a team of climbers, but have you been properly introduced to this sport. Even if you want to give it a shot without any prior rock climbing instructions, you may still not be able to make it simply because the team of climbers will want you to be at least basically trained into this.

Rock climbing has become a sporting activity only late in the beginning of the 20th century although until then many forms of climbing have been performed over the centuries. But it is true that the first forms of this sport were related mostly to mountaineering with many adepts in Germany and England exploring the Alps.