A group of students stands at the base of Calvin’s 40-foot climbing wall. Tethered to the wall with long ropes, they stand facing Ryan Walter Rooks. Sophomore Kyle Shutz is likewise tethered and ...

The climbing legend's best accomplishment before his next.

Few climbs have captured our collective imagination quite like The Dawn Wall. This notoriously difficult route on El Capitan became a crucible for legendary climber Tommy Caldwell, who spent years ...

The televised climb of a Taipei skyscraper follows an explosion of interest in the sport, fuelled by the post-pandemic boom in exercise ...

An adaptive climbing wall that allows anyone with a spirit of adventure to scale its rocky face was among the highlights of the three-day Abilities Expo at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center ...

Shelly Keller was nearly to the top of a 100-foot ice wall on Jan. 17 when her stomach dropped, her head started spinning and her vision narrowed. She was experiencing “the screaming barfies” — a ...

The guy from Free Solo is about to climb one of the world’s tallest buildings. Is that foolish?

The Seattle area’s newest climbing facilities present a range of offerings to the scene, from a “rotisserie” climbing wall to a new model of high-intensity interval training.