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New FiveTen Climbing Shoes Stick to Walls

Monday, 28th March at 08:00pm

fiveten climbing MI6 rubber MI:6 MI5 stick vertical

This past year, during the filming of the latest Mission Impossible movie, the famed Charles Cole developed a whole new kind of sticky rubber specifically for the stunts in this movie. They call it Mi:6 Rubber and it is truly mind-blowing.

Yes, that shoe is sticking to the wall via friction- I put it there myself. This particular rubber is very sticky and works on a different type of friction than regular climbing rubber. Charles explained it to me, and the whole thing just went over my head. Suffice to say, this type of rubber could quite possibly make grades inconsequential for slab climbing. It’s still in the testing phase at this point- no shoes officially have it except for the Warhawk sneaker that Cruise wears in Mission Impossible.

Via DPM Climbing