They also use crampons, ice screws and carabiners. The conditions have to be just right: When it’s too warm, the ice grows soft and can separate from the rock wall; when it’s too cold, the ice becomes ...

Ice climbing, introduced to Australia by migrants in the 1960s, is booming as extreme sport lovers seek higher thrills — but with such a short season, you have to book early.

Lurking in the background of today’s climbing news lies the exciting and fast-paced, yet least understood climbing genre of ...

With little information to go by, the Austrians Albert Leichtfried, Markus Bendler and photographer Hermann Erber travelled to Japan in search of the country's ice climbing potential. Apart from ...

At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just right — in the right kind of weather — for ice climbing. On the day CBS News Chicago joined Dave Everson and Bruce ...

This course will teach you what you need to know to take your love of climbing from the gym to the outdoors! Although not required, taking a lead clinic in our climbing gym is recommended as a ...

Fred Rouhling. A name which evokes images of the utmost extreme, the intense, unrepeated or simply downright impossible. A name which from the second half of the ‘90’s onwards created an important ...

America's ice-climbing epicenter was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an ...

There are 86 athletes from 15 countries competing in the Ice Climbing and Dry Tooling World Cup in Longmont this weekend. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) Ever since Golden resident Jessica ...

Walls of ice went up last Friday for the opening ceremonies of the Ice Climbing World Cup as excited crowds came to watch in Colorado. It's the first Ice Climbing World Cup since 2019 and ...