The truth is that you're right on both counts. A lot of alpine climbing is staring out at a snow-drifted expanse of wild, gorgeous, untouched rock--and trying not to poop your pants. That is to say, ...

Several years ago, in the dead of winter, I skied into a random valley in the Canadian Rockies to alpine climb. At the time I had little money, was yet to be blessed with a gear-reviewing job, and had ...

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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 ...

Brette Harrington (1992) is an American climber. Harrington is known for her high-end (5.13+) trad sends, free solos, and prolific establishment of technical, committing alpine big wall climbs. She ...

Members of Santa Maria High School's Alpine Club took a trip up the rock-wall at the Pad Climbing Gym in San Luis Obispo after the club's second outdoor movie night was held this semester featuring a ...

Ice Fest will bring climbers of all levels to the rarely explored Gros Cap Bluffs, as well as Searchmont, for a weekend of ice climbing, instructional clinics and live music.

Why did you start climbing? I grew up in Bolton in Lancashire. When I was 13, my parents were getting divorced, and I started going a bit off the rails. Eventually, a physics teacher called Harold ...