Patent ID: 7895772

Claim:
A climbing shoe comprising: a vamp; a sole irremovably fixed to the bottom of said vamp; at least a first binding made of elastic material which is irremovably fixed to the bottom of the vamp to uniformly enclose and grip the user's foot and is designed to cover, underneath the sole of the shoe, the portion of the vamp at the metatarsus-phalanx area of the sole of the foot, and to at least partly cover the portion of the vamp at the arch area of the sole of the foot; a substantially horseshoe-shaped second binding made of elastic material which covers the tip portion of the vamp surrounding the metatarsus-phalanx area of the sole of the foot; and a substantially horseshoe-shaped third binding made of elastic material and which covers the area of the vamp directly over the heel and extends along the sides of the vamp up to said second binding; said first binding comprising: two proximal appendixes which project on opposite sides of the main body of the first binding and along the sides of the vamp from approximately the borderline between the metatarsus-phalanx area of the sole of the foot and the arch area and join with the sides of the vamp roughly at the central segment of the metatarsus.