Five Ten was established by big wall solo
climbing, hard aiding, first ascenting Charles Cole in 1985.
Charles had heard that another company's sticky rubber
compound was discovered by accident. An engineer with a
love for Chess and other games of the mind, Charles
immediately found a new goal: use directed research to
improve climbing rubber. After all, if someone could do
well by accident, think what you could accomplish if you
put your mind to the problem.
The story is not new any longer and
anyone who doesn't already know that Stealthメ is the
stickiest climbing rubber in the world is either living in a
cave or just plain silly. Five Ten doesn't have a mission
statement, but we do have one goal: make the best footwear
possible. All our innovation and designs have been produced
with that goal in mind: to do what is best for athletes who
use our shoes.
Looking back through the years we see
lots of Five Ten firsts. Usually it was something that was
said to be impossible. We are always inspired by the
impossible.
You can be sure that right now we are
working hard on next year's models and that we will be
bringing something wild, new and exciting into Five Ten's
world of adventure sports.
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