Abstract: A retrievable rock-climbing anchor for potentially holding a climber to a climbable structure is disclosed. In particular, there is a retrievable rock-climbing anchor that performs better than the prior art. A further feature of the invention is to provide a retrievable rock-climbing anchor, comprising a wedge device having a passive and active wedges; with main and retraction cables coupled at one end to the passive and active wedges respectively. There is also a transverse pull component, fixedly coupled to the retraction cable, and slidably coupled to the main cable, and designed to retract the active wedge by applying a first force thereto, in order to remove the climbing anchor from the climbable structure. There is further a retrieval loop, coupled to a second end of the retraction cable, designed to retract the active wedge and the transverse pull component by applying a second force, which can be larger than the first force, to the retrieval loop.