Rock Climbing

An ice climber exposed himself to the elements on Monday afternoon by climbing a frozen waterfall in nothing but his boots. Around 2:30 ... In their 20s, the two Black Hills area men told Jones they wanted to make the free-soloing, or climbing without ...  

A 30-year-old female climber fell 300 feet Sunday morning on Mt. Hood. The call for help came in around 11:30am from a member of the climbing party. According to Sergeant James Rhodes of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, she is alert and conscious.  

MANILA, Philippines – Mountain climbers and nature enthusiasts are challenged to “defy their limits” and race to the peak of Mt. Apo, the country's most popular climbing destination in Southern Mindanao. The Department of Tourism - Region XI and the ...  

Climbers staring at tall task in Oakbrook TerraceThe Doings Oak BrookMoney raised from the climb will benefit the American Lung Association of Greater Chicago. “We have people climbing with their kids, spouses and whole generations,” said Katie Lorenz, Lung Association communications manager. “It's definitely a family ...and more »  

Schneider wants the club to focus less on competitions and more on improving the climbing community by welcoming all and any who are interested in this sport. For the first time, the indoor climbing wall at the CPA will be open each Saturday of ...  

Mount Rainier and Denali climbing rangers, personnel from the National Park Service Pacific West, Intermountain and Alaska regions, guides from Rainier Mountaineering Inc. and International Mountain Guides, and Olympic, Tacoma, Everett and ...  

Yesterday was "bouldering day" at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market show in Salt Lake City with book signings by two authors of their new bouldering books--John Sherman with the new second edition of his Better Bouldering book and Peter Beal with his new book Bouldering: Movement, Tactics, and Problem Solving. John Sherman, also nicknamed "Verm" from Vermin, is an American bouldering legend with a 36-year career of climbing small rocks and...  

Two men fell and were injured in separate accidents Sunday while rock climbing west of Boulder. Harry Bucy and his son were climbing the Flatirons formation at about 5 p.m. when the father fell about 30 feet, according to a Boulder Sheriff's ...  

In late April of 1336, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarch trekked to the windswept rocky summit of 6,263-foot Mont Ventoux in the Provence region of southern France. Petrarch, admiring the view from the top, read passages from the Confessions of Saint Augustine and ruminated on his experience of climbing the mountain. Petrarch later penned a 6,000-word essay--The Ascent of Mont Ventoux--that described that experience. Because...  

Carlyle Norman, twenty-nine, died on January 16 after being injured on January 15, while climbing Last Gringo Standing (6c A1, 500m) on the Patagonian peak Aguja Saint-Exupery (2558m). Late on January 15, the twenty-nine year-old, Calgary native and her partner Cian Brinker were approximately nine pitches up Last Gringo Standing, when she was struck by rockfall while belaying Brinker. She was found unconscious, having suffered...  

Climbing efficiently and gracefully is all about having good footwork. Use your feet well by placing them softly and quietly on footholds, making small steps rather than giant high steps, and using your legs to push rather than your arms to pull and you're going to get up a lot of hard routes. Good footwork when you're climbing helps you trust your rock shoes on small holds and gives you confidence that you can move upward from solid foot...  

Even in this modern age, when it seems that everywhere has been explored and mapped and almost every worthwhile rock face has been climbed, there are still lots of vertical places that have never been climbed. Yesterday I climbed, with my friends and climbing partners Dennis Jump from England and Brian Shelton, the first ascent of an unclimbed 300-foot-high tower, composed of volcanic rock,  in a remote mountain range in western Arizona...  

More Rock Climbing Fewer MartinisObserver Online"Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" accomplished exactly what it set out to do. It hounded us through countless TV ads and billboards, built off the recognition of the franchise's three previous films and at the end of the Christmas holiday was the ...and more »  

DNAinfoRock Climbing a Great Way to Reach Peak FitnessDNAinfoTry indoor rock climbing. To the uninitiated, rock climbing can look like it requires only brute upper body strength to haul yourself up a wall, Spiderman-style. But it's far more complex than it looks, say trainers at Manhattan's indoor climbing walls ...  

Feds Seek Alternatives to Restricting Rock Climbing AreaTwin Falls Times-NewsAnd as a federal advisory group seeks alternatives to barring rock climbing and other recreational uses of public land in the counties' southern reaches, special interest groups are speaking up. On Wednesday, the US Bureau of Land Management's Resource ...and more »