If you’ve already gained lots of experience scrambling up rock walls but are looking for a new challenge to add to your climbing repertoire—and aren’t afraid of a little cold weather—it may be time to ...

Last month, France's Winter Games organizing committee turned down a proposal to make ice climbing an Olympic sport.

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Oh, thank God, my whole body exclaimed. After a few swings, the razor-sharp pick I clutched lodged firmly into a cascading frozen waterfall. Shards of ice exploded from the point of contact onto my ...

Josh Lew is a writer and copywriter who focuses on travel, green living, and personal finance. Historically, one could only ice climb when weather conditions permitted it. These days, though, indoor ...

Here’s the first thing you need to know about ice climbing: it’s not as hard as it looks. Yes, you’re scaling a vertical frozen waterfall with sharp metal objects on your feet and in your hands, but ...

Lead falls are an indispensable part of rock climbing. Ask any performance-oriented sport or trad climber and they'll tell you: become comfortable with big, safe falls if you want to reach your full ...

Climbers scale the Beer Garden wall at the Lake City Ice Park this February. In the 1990s, the park was started by a motley crew of carpenters and raft guides who shared a passion for the sport.

The man in charge has a horseshoe mustache and an enormous Russian fur hat. It’s March 2019, cold, and he’s been stomping around this defunct apple orchard near Fenton, Michigan, with a power drill ...

The sport of ice climbing, in its truest expression, traverses the frozen waterfalls of Hyalite Canyon outside Bozeman, Montana, or the face of Mt. Pisgah overlooking Lake Willoughby in Vermont: ...