Belay Glasses for Rock Climbing

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The unique design is the first of its kind and Y&Y did an excellent job creating a product that does exactly what it’s supposed to do, and does it well.

Much like regular glasses, the quality of the lenses can have a huge impact on their utility. Poor lenses will wear badly and are likely to distort the image you see. the peripheral field around the sides of the lenses, allowing the belayer to remain aware of their surroundings. When you learn how to belay, one of the first things you hear is that you have to stay attentive. But that can easily waver when there’s a pressing ache drawing that attention away.

The Belay Specs are a solid performer and got plenty of attention for their sleek look, but they were outclassed by the Y&Y offerings. The PitchSix belay glasses strikes a nice balance between having a large field of view and also allowing you to be able to look over or under the prisms (depending where you have them on your nose). The PitchSix prisms themselves are a very similar size to the Metolius Upshot prisms. PitchSix left (bigger prisms), Cypher right (smaller prisms) Fit with other Glasses

If the main usage is going to be down the local climbing gym or the your local sports crag, then it’s likely that you don’t need to most durable, light weight pair of glasses and so could save you’re self some hard earned cash. PitchSix has created the worlds first adjustable angle belay glasses. With a small easy-to-use lever, you can adjust the angle of the prism to follow your climber up the wall.

The Fashionable Climber

Belay specs, belay glasses, belay goggles, these funky looking spectacles have a lot of different names but what exactly are belay glasses? At the end of all our testing, we scored the glasses on three categories: functionality, comfort, and features/portability. Functionality