2021 was an “interesting” year in terms of climbing gear. Because the pandemic put so much of life on pause, items that had been slated to be released in 2020 or early 2021 were held up by ...

An Oct. 13 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a crowd gathered at the base of a wall, some waving flags, as dozens attempt to scale the wall. "Breaking Alert," reads the post's caption. ...

Winners of the 2021 Piolets d’Or, mountaineering’s highest honor, were announced October 8 for two significant ascents, one in the Canadian Rockies and one in Pakistan, as well as a special mention ...

A video of people climbing the Israel-Lebanon border wall during protests in solidarity with the Palestinian people in May 2021 has resurfaced online with the false claim that it was filmed in October ...

In mid-October Italy’s Valle dell'Orco acted as the splendid setting for the La Sportiva Athletes Climbing Meeting, a three-day event for about thirty LaSpo athletes who had traveled from many parts ...

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If everything goes right, Nick Miller won’t be spending Christmas surrounded by friends and family in the Lehigh Valley. He’ll be more than 7,500 miles away, summiting the world’s tallest ...

Mr. Wejchert is a climber and the author of the forthcoming book “Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.” NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — In the winter of 1973, two climbers marched ...