Check out Gear Zone for all your climbing equipment. From indoor climbing to outdoor rock climbing, we stock everything you need for your essential climbing kit - rock shoes, helmets, belay devices, carabiners, quickdraws and more.
Browse our large range of popular brand climbing shoes including Five Ten, Mammut, Red Chili and Scarpa, available in sizes from UK size 3 up to size 15. With velcro and lace-up styles available, amongst the very best is the Five Ten Anasazi Verde, which is an excellent precision climbing shoe with phenomenal gripping qualities. And check out our ladies-specific Red Chili Lady Spirit and Five Ten Women's Rogue.
We make sure we're selling the best in climbing and mountaineering gear, with great products such as DMM dragon cams, Petzl and Clog climbing harnesses and Grivel crampons. Climbing helmets come courtesy of Wild Country, Petzl and Grivel, and a whole host of accessories are provided by Beal, Black Diamond, Mammut and Metolius, amongst others.
More about Climbing Equipment
The Myth
Climbing shoes need to be bought at least two sizes too small, and if your feet don't feel like they're going through some ancient foot-binding torture then they won't work!
The Truth
No they don't, although like most great myths this one has some root in truth, stemming from the dawn of climbing shoe manufacturing. But to understand why it's no longer relevant we need to know what a modern climbing shoe is designed to do.
- Provide a sticky rubber surface for maximum grip when 'smearing' (or literally using the toe and ball area of your feet to walk up a wall)
- Provide good 'sensitivity' so you can feel the rock and utilise the tiniest of lips.
- Move your feet into a key 'Power-Position'.
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Belay Devices are one of the most essential parts of your climbing kit. Used to control the rope during climbing, the belay device is effectively your 'brake' to ensure both you and your climbing partner's safety in case of a fall, and to control a climber's descent. After putting on a climbing harness correctly and tying in, they'll probably be the next thing you'll learn to use.
The most common and popular type of belay is the classic 'basket' shaped belay; simple to use, with no moving parts and extremely efficient, they're the staple device for most climbers, both beginner and pro.
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English climbers in the 1940s and '50s selected well-rounded stones to place in cracks in the rock face to act as chocks and aid their ascent. Granite stones from Wales ended up this way in Derbyshire, no doubt posing an enigma for archaeologists and geologists of the future!
And then came the introduction of metal chucks, which today are used on mountain ranges all over the world. Here at Gear-Zone, we have a huge selection of climbing equipment to meet your every need, whether you're planning an assault on the Alps or have ambitions on the Andes.
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Crampons are designed for serious snow- and ice-climbing, where they are used to give extra traction and improve mobility.
From the first prototype over 100 years ago, commercialised a short time later by the founder of the Grivel brand, crampons have dramatically reduced the need for step-cutting on snow- and ice-bound mountain terrain.
Made of hardened steel, lightweight aluminium or a combination of the two, crampons come in different styles suitable for different types of boot.
Graded C1, C2 and C3, the specifications are relative to their flexibility and general compatibility with your chosen footwear.
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