Climbing hundreds of feet up an ice column, with Lake Superior surging below, is not for everybody … but it is for this winter-hungry crew. Traverse City photographer Erik Olsen takes us ice climbing ...

Lead climbing is one of a number of different types of climbing. This discipline of climbing can take place on rock, ice or indoor climbing walls. If you've been watching the Olympics sport climbing ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City woman who died in a weekend ice climbing accident is being credited with saving the life of a fellow climber by pushing her out of the way when the ice above ...

Long gone are the days of hemp ropes, hobnailed boots, and chopping steps up ice faces. Today's ice climbing gear is highly engineered, refined, and more dialed than ever. Even so, simply surviving ...

The ice axes make a satisfying “thwack” every time a bundled-up climber, one tool in each hand, swings them into the frozen wall. Shattered bits fly off as the line of climbers inches up frozen drips, ...

A crowd dressed in bright, puffy jackets whooped and clapped from the edge of a gut-twistingly deep gorge. Below them, a young guy with pink hair and an axe in each hand raced against a clock, ...

"All the weight on that left foot, all the ice just sheared off the rock," described Tim Thompson of the incident while ice climbing near Bridal Veil Falls on Monday morning Shafiq Najib is a former ...

ALGER COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The body of a missing 31-year-old ice climber was found on Sunday, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore announced on Monday. Last Tuesday, James Bake, 31, from Gaylord ...

I've been climbing for decades, and the mistakes I've made or seen cover the gamut. My knot came partly untied while I was climbing at Joshua Tree; I've threaded my belay device backward; partway up ...

OURAY — There already has been a woman in space, female chief executive, senator, race car driver — not much opportunity for firsts as a woman these days.For Ines Papert, a feisty, petite woman from ...

A 29-year-old man is expected to make a full recovery after falling about 40 feet Monday while ice climbing in Provo Canyon. “They were fortunate it didn’t turn out worse than it did,” said Sgt.