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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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”), ...

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 ...

Jack wanted to become a doctor, but the dream seemed impossible. Such a mountain seemed out of reach. To get to the top seemed to be too treacherous, the summit too far away and the trip too strenuous ...