Rock climbing boots

Rock Climbing boots formally known as just Climbing boots, are used in the Death Plateau, Troll Stronghold, Eadgar's Ruse, and Troll Romance quests. They also make the Desert Treasure quest a lot easier. They can be taken (along with an iron bar) to the blacksmith in Burthorpe (Dunstan) to produce spiked boots.

After finishing Death Plateau, players may buy climbing boots from Tenzing the sherpa for 75,000 gp or the cheaper pair for 12 gp although the cheaper pair does not add the Strength bonuses. Players can purchase them through this method or by conveniently buying at the same price price on the Grand Exchange.

Rock Climbing boots and Climbing boots are most commonly used to scale the Death Plateau Troll shortcut.

These boots are also used by players in PvP dangerous combat because of the +2 bonus in strength. The strength bonus is equal to that of rune boots -- however, rune boots require 40 defence and cost a slightly bit more, but they give significantly better defence bonuses than Rock Climbing boots (This has been changed due to the recent update).

The update on 24 June 2010 caused a large amount of coins to be introduced into the game, as players could sell or alchemise the new "Rock Climbing boots" for 45k, when previously (before the update) they had been purchased as "Climbing boots" for just 12 coins each. This update made a lot of players mad because of many other players storing over 1000 pairs of the boots before the update, therefore making millions after the update by alching them for 45,000 coins each or selling them back to Tenzing.

Rumours
Along with the new update a lot of players rumoured that there would be rises in other items following the Climbing boots, such as rare items and a huge change in the RuneScape economy.

Assuming these rumours are true, many predicted that it would be wise to purchase vast amounts of items that overnight-rich pkers might buy. These items include: Abssal Whips, Godswords, Dragon Claws, Dragon Platelegs, Prayer Potions, Super Strength/Attack/Defence Potions, Dark Bows, Saradomin Swords, Saradomin Staves, Runes, and possibly even items to train with such as Chinchompas.

Riots
After the update on June 24 many players began to riot around RuneScape, shouting rumours of the fall of the RuneScape economy.

Outcome of Riots
As of 24-Jun-2010 16:11:59, there was an official announcement from Mod Mark on the Jagex Forums confirming that there will be no roll back.





Trivia
On 24 June 2010, Climbing boots increased from around 212 coins to 75,000 coins rising 35,277.3%, making it the most inflated item in the history of Runescape.