Dressed in Spandex athletic wear, men and women scale the 24-foot wall inside the Lattof YMCA in Des Plaines for a variety of reasons. Some come to the climbing wall with dreams of one day taking a… ...

From left Sawyer Grumbois, 8, Gwynn Carabin, 8, and Mayson Schmidt, 9, test out the new rock climbing wall at the YMCA on Thursday.

Officials at the Daily Family YMCA in Bixby hope a new rock climbing wall will be in place for kids to climb when the facility's Christmastown event begins Saturday. The eight-foot high, 20 foot ...

You don’t climb the boulder wall, you cross it. The Wellmark YMCA has a new rock climbing wall that will make users feel like Spider-Man.

Stepping through a nondescript door of a wing at New Britain-Berlin YMCA, visitors will come face to face with what looks like the Grand Canyon, not the dull white walls of the former racquetball ...

Nelson and Spitzer scale the YMCA's eight-year-old climbing wall with the ease of an elementary student navigating the monkey bars. The 20-year-old Nelson started climbing when he was 8.

The Nicholas M. Lattof International YMCA in Des Plaines has constructed a 23-foot-high rock climbing wall. Although the wall was completed several months ago, ... CLIMBING THE WALLS ...

Firley YMCA, at 525 Ellis Blvd. in Jefferson City, has installed two "auto belay devices" above its climbing walls, said Austin Tucker, the nonprofit's senior climbing instructor.