During winter months many climbers turn their attention to ice climbing. Words such as verglas ... Notes: The information published here is not complete. Please refer to the Mountain Guides' technical ...

legendary mountain climber Kitty Calhoun, who in February was named "one of the greatest alpinists of her generation" by the ...

What drives a person to climb dry rock faces with ice gear? The answer is simple: the desire for ice. Dry-tooling is the name of this mountain-sport discipline that seems strange to the uninitiated.

Death on Mont Blanc Two Italian, and two South Korean climbers were overwhelmed by a storm on the icy slopes of Mont Blanc on ...

A mountaineer and MIT-trained engineer is on a mission for the American Alpine Club to study climate change's impact on ...

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 ...

It was far from easy, that's for sure, but it's perfectly achievable without an ounce of rock or ice-climbing experience. The best time to climb the mountain is during the peak of the ...

Any good outdoors store likely has a copy of the Seattle-born bible of mountaineering. With that seminal text, Mountaineers ...

Once among the jumbled ice blocks, we moved quickly ... What about the brutally cold moments of panic that set in when we'd climb into the mountain's shadow, and the temperature would suddenly ...

Mr Kowshik - along with mountain guides Tsewang Namgyal and Rigzin Tsewang - has also organised ice climbing festivals in the Siachen Valley in Ladakh. Mr Namgyal, who is from Ladakh, says that ...

Climbing Season in the Himalayas The ‘second’ climbing season in the Himalayas has begun. The first climbing season, which began in March and ended in ...

it did seem like it was going to be a formidable mountain to climb. "However, as a team we worked extremely hard and pulled through what was a very challenging period for the business. Ice Factor ...