Arborists from across the region gathered for a competitive tree climbing competition at Crestmoor Park on Saturday. "Rock climbing is more of a finesse," ...

Hooking, stepping, climbing. It may look easy for these athletes, but it takes dedication and qualifying to compete at a national level. That's what the athletes at ...

Last Friday, Alexandria Incontro from Omaha, Nebraska, very nearly free-soloed Mt. Rushmore, making it 15 feet from the top before she was persuaded to give ...

Did Philadelphia's friendly neighborhood "Spider-Man" just escape an apartment fire?

"It's mountain biking," says Mike Levy. Pinkbike used to spend a few weeks each year testing bikes in Sedona, Arizona, and it was on those trips where Mike ...

An anonymous group of climbers has removed around 30 routes from Ten Sleep Canyon and padlocked the first bolts of dozens more in protest against some ...

A man seen scaling a West Philadelphia apartment building during a fire spoke said in an exclusive interview that he would stop at nothing to reach his mother ...

Gripstone Climbing Gym, an indoor rock climbing center whose owners say will be one of the city's largest, is taking shape on Colorado Springs' busy northeast ...

Maine offers not only a variety of indoor rock climbing gyms, but an abundance of outdoor destinations for coastal rock climbing, bouldering, and even ice.

Just a quick 45-minute drive from Ellensburg, a person can gaze upon an unusual geological phenomenon, the Frenchman Coulee. Located near Vantage ...

A fifth face temporarily appeared on Mount Rushmore last Friday as a barefoot Nebraska woman illegally scaled the massive sculpture without a rope, making it ...

Anyone can take the lift to the top of the Shard tower to get great views over London, but one man decided to add some extra excitement to his visit.

A veteran has captured the hearts of social media users after he climbed a flag pole at the Navy SEAL monument in Virginia to fix a loose American flag.

Two heads are better than one, the saying goes. Our friends at Backcountry took that advice to heart when creating their new climbing collection, teaming up with ...

Adaptive Climbing Group (ACG) Chicago brings together paraclimbers of varying skill levels, from novices to high-level competitors.

More states are covering remote patient monitoring but the conditions for payment in each state vary, with some states limiting RPM coverage to patients with ...

Authorities say Alexandria Incontro scaled the massive granite sculpture Friday with bare feet and no rope, making it to about 15 feet (4.5 meters) from the top.

Two climbers attempted to establish a new route up Mount Everest in one of the busiest climbing seasons yet.

Planning a climbing trip in the West? The federal government wants to help.On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management unveiled a new online, interactive ...

As a rock climber himself, Jason Hooper, UC San Diego Health physical therapist, enjoys using specialized equipment to help injured climbers regain their ...

A new generation of robots being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can crawl, walk and even climb cliffs.

ASPEN, Colo. (CBS4) – A 61-year-old man's body has been recovered after he fell while climbing Maroon Peak outside Aspen. The accident happened on ...

Following the incident on Friday morning, the man was taken into custody by local authorities.

The sports climbing superstar from South Korea scales skyscrapers for fun. Now she's eying up gold at Tokyo 2020.

Two climbers trace the evolution of the sport through their 40-year friendship. Todd Gordon and Tucker Tech pioneered many of the routes in Joshua Tree ...

SYDNEY, Australia — It is an unusual sight for the famous but remote sandstone monolith known as Uluru: dense lines of eager climbers snaking up its ...

On May 15 a windburned Kirstie Ennis hauled herself up to Everest's “death zone,” the final 200 meters leading up to the peak where the air is so thin humans ...

Master of Nordic noir Jo Nesbo says rock climbing has shown him how a healthy jolt of fear and adrenaline can sharpen the mind.

More and more people are becoming rock climbers, and the economic effects are big in our region. That's according to a new report from the American Alpine.

It was a scene no one could quite believe -- atop Everest, once considered the most remote place on earth, lines of climbers snaked over the ridgeline above the ...

A search for a group missing on India's second-highest peak since late May recovered seven bodies and a helmet camera appearing to show their final ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (WCMH) — A former Navy SEAL out on a morning run in Virginia Beach this past week shimmied up a flag pole to fix a flag at the ...

The American Alpine Club, in partnership with more than a dozen supporting organizations, is proud to release the first-ever State of Climbing Report, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – Pembroke Mall has announced a new climbing and fitness center in partnership with Latitude Climbing and Fitness.

According to a CaringBridge page, Rebecca Nara was rock climbing at Gooseberry State Park on Saturday when she fell.

NASA has pioneered the development of all kinds of robots and robotic systems. Beyond its0 orbiters and satellites, which have been exploring the planets and ...

BOZEMAN - Gallatin County is mourning one of their own after a Search and Rescue team member died in a rock climbing accident.

In principle, the mountaineer's work is simple: “To win the game he has first to reach the mountain's summit,” said George Mallory, who took part in Britain's first ...

The world's most famous climber, Alex Honnold, thinks Colorado climbing is just okay.

Austin Howell, widely known in the climbing community through his Instagram account “Freesoloist,” died after a fall while free soloing at Shortoff Mountain, ...

TEN SLEEP – Manufactured rock-climbing holds being created in Ten Sleep Canyon has led to an investigation by the United States Forest *Service*.

The climb ban at Uluru goes into effect after repeated requests for people not to climb.

As a child in Nepal, Parmila Dhimal grew up hearing stories of climbers who climbed Mount Everest and the legacy they left behind. The rising junior at Corcoran ...

NASA has been developing a Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot, or LEMUR. With four limbs, 16 fingers, and hundreds of tiny hooks, LEMUR can climb ...

One of the fastest growing sports in Minnesota is one you might not expect for a relatively flat landscape, but rock climbing options abound here in the Upper ...

Watch Jorg Verhoeven and Katharina Saurwein climbing some of the most famous single pitch rock climbs in Yosemite after retiring from climbing competitions.

Airfares across the U.S. are getting cheaper -- just not for North Texas fliers.Airfares between U.S. destinations dropped two percent during the...

If you close your eyes and listen to Matt Brennan speak, it's almost like you, yourself, are standing on the trails of Mount Everest. Almost.

From the LEMUR to the RoboSimian, the mountains on other worlds need exploring.

An effort to allow city-sanctioned rock climbing on Grandad Bluff took a step forward Thursday, when the city's parks board voted to ask city staff to look into it.

At work, top executives are asked to walk the knife edge between calculated risk and recklessness. No wonder so many fly planes in their spare time.

Alex Honnold's historic climb is too extraordinary to become a story of motivational-poster determination.

The Goulburn Climbing Sloths were in charge of the rock climbing.

Obesity is rising fast in Southeast Asia, putting strain on healthcare systems and government budgets, particularly in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, ...

Climbers have been barred from a third of the rock art-rich Victorian park, but Indigenous owners say there could be scope to allow activity back in other areas.

Here's a crash course of climbing 14ers in Colorado so you, too, can have the quintessential Colorado experience.

It is a holy spot for the indigenous Anangu of Australia, where their ancestors rest and outsiders are cursed for disturbing the red-colored Uluru monolith ...

"Finally, the time we have been waiting for has arrived," Mike Horn posted yesterday. Together with Fred Roux, and virtu.

Clouds of chalk billowed from Kyle Long's hands as he clapped them together and gazed up at the indoor climbing wall in Wilson Recreation Center on West ...

Despite efforts to discourage climbers on Uluru, or Ayer's Rock, in Australia, as well as an upcoming ban scheduled for late October of this year,

Before embracing plans to revamp the historic Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. property in West Philadelphia into a public-health campus, city officials vetted ...

The Nobe 100 shows it is literally climbing the walls for support with this arrangement that allows it to be parked on walls.

Right now, the rock climbing area is closed at the park.

There's a lot to climbing Colorado's 14ers. From proper footwear to preventing altitude sickness, here's key advice for first timers.

ULURU (Australia) — At the base of Uluru are signs in seven languages requesting people reconsider climbing Australia's most iconic natural landmark, once ...

Why two men with type one diabetes are hiking to the the highest points in all 50 US states - in 50 days.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks doctoral student died Tuesday in a rock climbing accident in Denali National Park. Evan Millsap, 26, was climbing with a friend ...

CRESTONE, Colo. -- Search and rescue teams in southern Colorado are looking for a man who went missing while climbing a 14er. Tyler Cline went hiking ...

The man was trapped 19 floors above ground when he began climbing down the side.

She is the first woman to climb a 5.14d in the Frankenjura, and the first German woman to climb the grade. By Leyla Brittan | June 25th, 2019. Chiara Hanke has ...

Just in the time for the weekend, skies are clearing, and temperatures are climbing. Aside from some clouds on the coast, most of northwest Oregon and ...

A 10-year-old girl has become the youngest person on record to climb to the top of Yosemite's 3,000-foot El Capitan summit. Selah Schneiter is 10 years old and ...

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One of the world's best rock climbers walks us through the footage of his ascent of Silence, the world's first 9c (5.15d) rock climb.

An Oxford man was electrocuted after he apparently climbed a utility pole on Bailey Road, authorities said. Police and firefighters were called to the area of 32 ...

ANDERSON ISLAND, Wash. -- A horrific car crash 10 years ago that left an Anderson Island man with severe head injuries and in a coma for weeks fighting for ...

Indian paramilitary soldiers on Sunday reached the bodies of seven of eight members of an international climbing team that went missing on the country's ...

BREAKING NEWS!!! The Daily Norseman and the Climbing The Pocket Network are joining forces to create a one-stop shop for Vikings podcasts delivered to ...

One ambition: To carry a man with cerebral palsy to one of the peaks of Mt Kenya in the first week of September. Two devices: A normal wheelchair and a ...

Breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing have been provisionally included on the sports programme of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The decision ...

A man climbed an old Bethlehem SteelStacks blast furnace in Bethlehem on Friday night, and remains atop the tower as of Saturday afternoon.

TODAY/TONIGHT: This morning there will be a chance of some scattered showers and thunderstorms. There still could be some strong or severe storms,

Camp Shriver is a two-week summer sports camp for middle and high school students, both with and without intellectual disabilities.

LA MONGIE, France — When the team of Geraint Thomas was in its pomp at the Tour de France, a time trial followed by a big mountain stage would have been ...

David Lama reaching the summit of Lunag Ri on October 25, 2018. Photo: Sean Haverstock / Red Bull *Content* Pool. The Piolets d'Or have released the long list ...

Cardi B's video of Kulture climbing stairs in their home is too cute! See the 1-year-old after her lavish, NYC birthday bash.

It's important to set a good example for kids. Be a role model: someone who is kind, honest, and humble. Alternatively, if you are Alexandria Incontro, you can set ...

ASPEN — The first climbing death of the summer occurred Wednesday on Maroon Peak, an official said Thursday. Mountain Rescue Aspen volunteers have ...

A Gaston County trampoline park where a 12-year-old boy fell last week says the “tragic fall,” which led to the boy's death, “was an unfortunate case of human ...

When it comes to exploring far off planets, robots need to be able to tackle all sorts of environmental challenges. NASA has been working on a series of climbing ...

Two fans had to be removed from the Arizona Diamondbacks' Saturday game after they climbed on top of the dugout with a banner advertising milk.

DENVER -- After several late-season storms, many of Colorado's 14000-ft. peaks are still covered in snow. The snowpack is making some 14ers more difficult to ...

Costa Mesa's Tanner Cislaw, who will compete in the IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships, has used rock climbing as a vessel to rise above his ...

The unidentified man was unharmed, but four others were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.

Boise biologist David Anderson wants to change the world with tree climbing.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies exploded into the public consciousness in late 2017 at the culmination of an epic year-long rally that saw the bitcoin price go from ...

ST. LOUIS – Fifty-five years ago this week, Percy Green was arrested for climbing up the Gateway Arch while it was still under construction. On Tuesday, the ...

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After making the playoffs in his first season as head coach and then finishing with six wins the following season, head coach Sean McDermott is ready to get ...

Footage has emerged of a man climbing onto the wing of a plane just before takeoff, causing panic among passengers and the flight to be severely delayed.