Climbing shoe
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A climbing shoe is a specialized type of footwear designed for rock climbing. Typical climbing shoes have a tight fit, an asymmetrical downturn, and a sticky rubber sole with an extended rubber rand t
Early rock climbers used heavy-soled mountaineering boots.
L-R: Two rock climbing shoes, an approach shoe, a leather boot and a plastic mountaineering boot, last two with automatic crampons
Five Ten Anasazi Verde
Plimsoll (shoe)
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A plimsoll, also spelled plimsole, or pump, is a light sports shoe with a canvas upper and flat rubber sole.
Climbing shoe
…developed by Vitale Bramani in Italy in the 1930s. In postwar Britain, a new generation of climbers like Joe Brown began to climb harder routes wearing plimsolls (rubber-soled canvas sneakers), sometimes with woollen socks over them to improve grip. Pierre Allain was an enthusiastic French rock climber who…
Plimsolls with elastic instead of laces
A pair of blue plimsolls
A pair of white plimsolls labelled as "tennis shoes"