Indoor climbing has gotten so expensive that the American Alpine Club officially considers it an "access issue." Is there ...

Samantha “Sam” MacIlwaine is a climber and freelance journalist based in the American West. Her work can be found in Climbing, Gripped, and The Moab Sun News. She holds a B.S. from Columbia University ...

Gripped is a feature length rock climbing survival epic that takes place on the side of a 1000ft cliff. Set high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, Gripped follows the story of Rose, a gym ...

Climbing into the bright yellow 1940 Piper J-4 Cub ... Twenty minutes into the flight, he called, “Your plane,” and I gripped ...

There is a sport that has gripped the public's imagination ... We've got something like 400 to 500 per cent more people going climbing every day now than we did at the beginning.

Whatever the reason, climbing has boomed in popularity around the world. "I've seen so many people getting into outdoor climbing over the last 20 years," says Australian climber and photographer ...

Photo by Shayna Conde I strode off the cruise ship in Labadee, Haiti, alongside nearly 40 of my cousins. On shore, there were ...

Sport climbing consists of three separate disciplines: speed, bouldering and lead. At the last Olympics, one single combined event was held that incorporated all three disciplines. For the 2024 ...

The climbing wall was approved by the City Council in 1995 and quickly installed by new climbing gym operator Stuart Cowles before Asheville's premier festival Bele Chere. The outdoor wall of the ...

You probably do a bit of climbing, or know someone who does – a weekend warrior who swaps their laptop for a bouldering wall on Sunday afternoons. The sport is booming, with the number of people ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Easter in Jerusalem ... to the hundreds of new Israeli housing units climbing up the hills nearby.