This year’s North Face Climb Festival, the first held in New York, delivered on its promise of an adrenaline-bound community. With a 55-foot climbing wall anchored into the pier waters, onlookers ...

Acclimatizing on his way to K2's basecamp in January 2021, the renowned Chilean mountaineer and humanitarian JP Mohr Prieto trekked through Pakistan's Shigar Valley looking for two things: undeveloped ...

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Katherine Cedro didn’t always consider herself a rock climber. The Wayne native embraced the sport when she was in college studying to become a nurse. She would climb on her own indoors, and ...

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Five years ago, Gabrielle Dickerson, then a sophomore at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, lay awake in her sleeping bag on her first overnight climbing trip, enveloped by the woods of the ...