N ot all collaborations from The North Face make sense (ahem, Gucci) but when they team up with some of the world's best climbers to find out what they want from an approach shoe, we're all ears.

Those traits enable it to pass muster with Mellow’s hard-climbing founders — Daniel Woods, Shawn Raboutou, Jimmy Webb and Giuliano Cameroni — whose YouTube channel’s visceral videos regularly garner ...