In this video, I take on one of the coldest climbing challenges I’ve ever faced: scaling up the icy edge of a freezing ...
Climbing hundreds of feet up an ice column, with Lake Superior surging below, is not for everybody … but it is for this winter-hungry crew. Traverse City photographer Erik Olsen takes us ice climbing ...
Catalina Shirley, 22, is looking forward to a competitive adventure in February that involves twisting herself into a pretzel, then climbing horizontally over free-hanging air, underneath a cube, ...
Less than two hours from Chicago, there lies a hidden and frozen gem that draws adventure seekers from all over the country. At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arvada’s Ian Umstead has competed internationally in two sports, first in Europe as a young cyclist aspiring to race professionally, now as an elite ice ...
Check out the amazing moment this adventurous man tried ice climbing without his tools. Bernhard Witz, from Bern, Switzerland, has been experimenting and trying to climb up frozen waterfalls with his ...
It wasn’t that long ago that Forrest “Frosty” Gill had almost no idea what alpine climbing was all about — he’d never used a harness, ice axe or crampons. He was 39 years old in 2014 and by his own ...
The art of climbing frozen waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park. Frozen waterfalls are an ephemeral phenomenon found in bitterly cold mountain gullies. Most people are happy just to admire the ice, ...
The Adirondack Mountains are known as an ice climbing destination; there are around 600 ice climbing routes for climbers to tackle when conditions are good. This winter's conditions have been a bit ...
Catalina Shirley competes in the 2019 Ice Climbing World Tour in Denver. Credit: Levi Harrell / UIAA There’s forty feet of ice towering above Catalina Shirley. The Lafayette resident is moments away ...
Owners of the Climbing Collective gym in Longmont, one of Colorado’s foremost climbing facilities, are hopeful they can ...