Rock climbing boots

Rock climbing boots, formerly known as just Climbing boots, are used in the Death Plateau, Troll Stronghold, Eadgar's Ruse, and Troll Romance quests. They cannot be used to produce spiked boots.

After finishing Death Plateau, players may buy rock climbing boots from Tenzing the Sherpa for 75,000 coins or the cheaper pair of normal climbing boots for 12 coins, although the cheaper pair does not add the Strength bonuses. Players can purchase rock climbing boots through Tenzing or by conveniently buying them at the Grand Exchange.

Rock 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. Rune boots require 40 Defence and cost slightly more, but give a significantly better Defence bonus than rock climbing boots.

The update on 24 June 2010 introduced a large amount of coins into the game, as players could alchemise the new "rock climbing boots" for 45,000 coins, when previously (before the update), they had been purchased as "Climbing boots" for just 12 coins each. All regular climbing boots in players' banks were converted to rock climbing boots, giving these players an unexpected large profit. Many players on the RuneScape forums believed that these players were granted wealth they did not deserve, and called for a rollback; this did not occur. Mod Emilee responded with a thread giving statistics of 55% of the people had one/zero pair of boots before the update, 99% had fewer than 50 pairs of boots. Mod Mark said the highest number of boots he had seen is 1.8k. To give an idea of the immense profit that this update may have caused, the player with the most boots (1.8k) will have made a total of 135m profit (not counting the cost of the boots, which is around 25k).

Riots
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After the update on June 24, many players began to riot around RuneScape, shouting rumours of the fall of the RuneScape economy. As a result, on 24 June 2010, there was an official announcement from Mod Mark on the Jagex Forums confirming that there would be no rollback.

Gallery
The following images relate to the climbing boot update

Trivia

 * In a span of 30 days, rock climbing boots saw an increase of over 35,000%. The boots rose from around 200 coins to 1400 coins before the 25th of June's update set the price at 75,000 coins (a 5,000% increase), making it one of the most inflated items in the history of RuneScape. The most inflated item ever was the 5kg piece of Granite which increased in price 176,333% in one day due to the update which allowed it to be cut into individual pieces of 500g Granite.
 * Because of the update, some players had possibly gained thousands or millions of coins from the update by selling/high alchemising the boots that they had previously bought for only 12 coins. The amount of people or effect on the economy is unknown, however its possible that the effect was on food commonly used in player-killing, such as lobster and monkfish which become low in price mainly because of number of PKers who had climbing boots with them when the update happened.
 * These are commonly used by PKers because of the Strength bonus they offer and a much lower risk than Dragon boots.