Lead falls are an indispensable part of rock climbing. Ask any performance-oriented sport or trad climber and they'll tell you: become comfortable with big, safe falls if you want to reach your full ...

Late last month, Denver’s Civic Center Park hosted the sixth and final UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup of the 2019 season. And for the first time in the competition circuit’s 19-year history, the action ...

The man in charge has a horseshoe mustache and an enormous Russian fur hat. It’s March 2019, cold, and he’s been stomping around this defunct apple orchard near Fenton, Michigan, with a power drill ...

On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ax. The author’s guide, Zach Lentsch, sets a climbing course on a waterfall ...

Despite the polar vortex swirling overhead, leaving temperatures in the single digits, a crowd of people began to form around 7:30 a.m. on Friday on the sidewalk of Main Street in North Conway, New ...