Researchers have explored how integrating machine and deep learning techniques can create a standardized system for evaluating rock climbing routes to provide a difficulty grading scale that promotes ...

Blaise O’Mara, a Sunapee native who is currently a master’s degree student at UNH, was the lead researcher of the project to eliminate grading bias from rock climbing through the use of deep-learning ...

Climbers from around the world come to Utah to scale the sheer granite walls in Lone Peak Cirque and American Fork Canyon, often relying on hangers bolted onto the rock to protect them from ...