El Capitan was first climbed by Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore in 1958. They climbed The Nose…

Several sports will debut at next summer’s Tokyo Olympics, with the uniting theme of making the Games gnarlier.…

Donald Trump is confident that the wall along the southern border—which was the central promise of his presidential…

Last Friday, Alexandria Incontro from Omaha, Nebraska, very nearly free-soloed Mt. Rushmore, making it 15 feet from…

When I was 10 years old, my most impressive athletic feat was playing basketball during recess with the bottoms of…

According to Indian climbers Vikas Rana, Shobha Banwala, and Ankush Kasana, the trio summited Mt. Everest on May 26…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Every night during Ramadan, about a dozen boys meet up in a parking lot that sits near…

After a four-day search, Parks Canada announced Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of climbers Jess…

Behold Donald Trump Jr., failed son of a failed son.

Over the first 12,000 or so years after Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan wall was scoured out by glaciers, no…

“This was the original price,” Serap Jangbu Sherpa assured them as he pulled down a waterproof jacket from the…

K2 is perhaps the most dangerous mountain in the world. One in every four people who makes an attempt to summit it…

Oregon Army National Guard personnel in this big-ass helicopter extracted a wayward climber and the six rescuers…

This morning, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell ascended El Capitan’s most famous route, the Nose, in 2 hours, 10…

Naturally, Alex Honnold is in Yosemite right now. This should not surprise you, because if non-climbers know…

Famed climbers Marc-Andre Leclerc and Ryan Johnson are presumed dead nine days after disappearing in Alaska’s…

Here we have Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer stuck on a face. By his own account, he lost his route with “no option…

On Sunday, French mountain climber Elisabeth Revol was rescued by a team of Polish climbers on the slopes of a…

Antarctica is mostly known as a snowy wasteland, an island at the bottom of the world with nothing but ice and the…