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A climbing harness is one of the few pieces of gear that is absolutely essential when attempting to scale anything that stretches beyond bouldering height. Maybe you don’t feel that way if you’re Alex ...

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VAIL, Colorado – Because defying gravity and scaling big walls just isn’t enough… Somewhere between climbing, ice climbing and high-alpine mountaineering is mixed climbing. Known as dry tooling, ...

Learning the ropes takes on a whole new meaning when you’re 55-feet in the air and clipped into one. Still the staff at Ripon’s new Alpine Climbing Adventure Fitness are determined to make rock ...

If you think about the single action or movement that an alpine climber does the most, it has to be taking a step. It may not be the most glamorous aspect of mountain climbing, but the truth is that ...

Editor’s Note: Thanks in part to Nims Purja’s incredible scaling of the 14 highest mountain peaks in just over six months, we’ve got mountaineering on the brain. But before your next climb, check out ...

High up in the natural wonder of the French Alps, the climbers who spend their days among the rockfaces and glaciers have come to a grim conclusion: the mountains are falling down around them. In the ...