Our Favorite Bouldering Shoes (Updated 2023)

This article originally appeared on Climbing

Bouldering shoes come in all shapes and sizes. The model that’s best for you depends on a variety of factors, including on your body type, climbing style, how hard you climb, the type of rock you climb on, how many different pairs you want to own, and how much money you want to spend. But for the sake of this article, we'll assume that when someone Google's "bouldering shoe" they are looking for a performance shoe, something that's built for a specific kind of (generally steep and hard) climbing.

Here, we've compiled ten of our favorite bouldering shoes--and a list of ten things to think about when buying climbing shoes.

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