It wasn’t that long ago that Forrest “Frosty” Gill had almost no idea what alpine climbing was all about — he’d never used a harness, ice axe or crampons. He was 39 years old in 2014 and by his own ...

A nine-day storm, stacked pitches of 5.12 and 5.13, and back-to-back wet cruxes at the top - what Sasha DiGiulian overcame to ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Stair climbing gets the heart pumping quickly, as anyone who’s ever skipped the elevator or escalator knows. That makes it an excellent low-impact exercise that’s as accessible as walking, since ...