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On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ...

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs ...

Climbing shoes may get all the air time, but unless you’re in the ranks of soloists like Peter Croft, Alex Honnold and Marc-André Leclerc, you’re going to need one of the best climbing harnesses. This ...

In college, I thrived socially. I was a member of multiple student organizations, I lived with fun roommates, and I had a close group of friends. Because I went to a mid-sized school, I also had a ...

Shelma Jun never meant to start a movement. It was 2014, and she had fallen in love with climbing—and her gang of female climber friends—when she began Flash Foxy as an Instagram account. The tagline?

Attached to a rope 50 feet in the air, you hook your heel onto a tiny ledge above your waist and leverage your body up, your arm muscles quaking as you reach for the ultimate hold. “One more push, and ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

When Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler trekked to Everest Base Camp in 1978, they were the only two people on Earth who believed they weren’t marching toward their own graves. Their goal was to reach ...

After I became newly single, I received a parade of well-meaning but ultimately generic pieces of advice. Only one actually caught my attention: If you want to meet someone, go to an indoor climbing ...

If your kids have been climbing the walls, it’s a great time to take them to a place where acting like a monkey is totally encouraged. Rock climbing is a fun way to burn energy and bond as a family, ...