Climbing 5.14 is a lot easier than you think—unless you already climb 5.14, in which case you know that that statement is complete, utter bullshit. But that doesn’t mean that the average climber who is desperate to tick the benchmark grade won’t do something as stupid as click on a blog post titled “How To Climb 5.14” and actually believe that therein lies revelatory information that will actually, magically, fast-forward him toward what was once the pinnacle of climbing difficulty in 1985. Today, there are more 5.14’s than there are whack emcees. And every day, more of them are put up. Statistically, your odds of climbing 5.14 actually increase every day even if you do nothing at all. But this isn’t what we want to hear. We want to be proactive. We’re Americans, dammit! You think Manifest Destiny was some kind of abstract Zen Koan? Hell no. Roll up your […]