The attached crampons scraped against the brittle ice and flailed into empty air. The ice tool slid free from the ice above ...

As the winter climbing season draws to a close in the Himalayas, two avalanches rocketed down the steep slopes of Annapurna over the weekend above Camp 2. The first avalanche missed the only ...

A third, and exreme, climbing period falls in the dead of winter - the most challenging and treacherous time of year to venture into the Himalaya. The Winter Climbing Season began Saturday ...

Across Maine, he teaches rock climbing and mountaineering and, in these colder months, leads students up sheer faces of frozen waterfalls and iced-over coastal cliffs. We chatted with Kleiner about ...

Researchers have explored how integrating machine and deep learning techniques can create a standardized system for evaluating rock climbing routes to provide a difficulty grading scale that promotes ...