In Boulder, every climbing area holds a rich history full of wild characters and daredevil climbs. I recently featured five ...

Two hunting buddies hire guides to ride them into the backcountry and hunt elk and mountain goats in this story from the ...

Whether it was hikers who slipped into an icy couloir, someone having a medical episode in the backcountry or a trail runner ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

An injured ice climber had to be airlifted after falling amid wintry weather in the Catskills area in upstate New York.

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

On the 66th anniversary of the disputed first ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia by Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger, we examine ...

Tragedy on Grossglockner Tragedy unfolded in Austria on the mountain Grossglockner last weekend. A 33-year old woman froze to ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

I came across an interesting book recently which contained a chapter about an Offaly man whose story is little known. His ...

As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...

By Alan Hinkes Rock climbing has been my passion since I first started on the sandstone and gritstone crags as ...