The right safety equipment will keep you safe not just while sitting in a stand, but also during your ascent and descent from the tree. We kept that in mind when making our top picks for the best ...

Modern equipment standards, which the BMC helped create and continues to be involved in evolving, ensure that safety equipment for climbers is better than it ever has been. Here we provide advice on ...

George Welles craned his neck to look at the figures in the tree canopy above. “This is the definition of a bad day,” he said, pointing out the climber that was carefully lowering a dangling dummy ...

But Kenneth Carter, a veteran hunter and safety instructor with 25 years of experience, says not using safety gear ... the climbing stand but somehow connecting yourself to the tree so you won ...