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 ...
In a summer of firsts, mountain-climbing Benedictine monks of Mount Angel Abbey took to the heights — their locally brewed beer tucked in backpacks — ascending renowned peaks in the Pacific Northwest ...
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 ...
GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced Wednesday that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut speed climbing competitions at this year’s event June 5-8. These new ...
The Mohonk Mountain House Resort has a new, guided-only trail of a type more commonly found in the Dolomites and the Alps. It’s called via ferrata (loosely translated from Italian as “Iron Way”), ...
On July 19, 1894, the mountaineering club called the Mazamas held its inaugural meeting on the summit of Mount Hood, beginning almost 130 years of mountain climbing, conservation and education.