“The Revo is awesome,” says Wild Country athlete James Pearson, who with his climbing/life partner and fellow Wild Country team member, Caroline Ciavaldini, has been testing and helping develop the belay device over the past two years. “If it were to replace a lot of other ‘auto-blockers’ out there, we’d see a drastic decrease in belay accidents.” Pearson is referring to Wild Country’s innovative new centrifugal-force-powered, bidirectional device, which hits markets this year after years of design, refinement, and field testing, including manufacturing process delays that held up the originally slated 2017 release.