It wasn’t that long ago that Forrest “Frosty” Gill had almost no idea what alpine climbing was all about — he’d never used a harness, ice axe or crampons. He was 39 years old in 2014 and ...

known for its extreme technical challenges. Beyond the park, the surrounding San Juan Mountains offer a wealth of natural ice ...

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 ...

Professional ice climber Will Gadd rates nine ice-climbing scenes in movies and television shows for realism. He discusses the accuracy of ice-climbing techniques in "Game of Thrones" (2013 ...

Ice climbing without ice ... I associate courage, heroism, extreme experience and madness with the north face. North faces are dark and forbidding, reserved for the best mountaineers, and even ...

A brief analysis of the new grade WI 11, put forward for the first time in February 2012 by Klemen Premrl and Tim Emmett after having freed the single pitch ice climb Wolverine at the Helmcken Falls ...

This is not true. Climbing at high altitude on snow, ice and rock is not the same as scaling sheer granite rock walls. Both rock and mountain climbing require a high level of conditioning ...

In 2015, pro climber Will Gadd made the first-ever ice climb up Niagara Falls, setting up his line on the American side of the falls on Terrapin Point. Back in 2015, Gadd made the first-ever ice ...

It was the Ice Climbing and Dry Tooling World Cup. “You’ve got objects hanging from the outdoor structure that flow back-and-forth, so you have got to have nerves of steel. These folks are ...