Each winter, ice climbing festivals occur around the United States. Take a trip one of these popular ice fests to meet new ...

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 ...

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.

To Native Americans, New England's highest mountain was called Agiocochook or "the place of the Great Spirit." Because of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mountain was first climbed in 1962 by Heinrich ... making it one of the few places in the tropics where permanent ice exists. These glaciers, created during the last ice age, serve as a ...

The ice sheet was named for that group ... (Mike Hamill, founder of elite mountain guiding company, Climbing The Seven Summits, details climbing Aconcagua in the video below.) ...

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 ...

Just because the temps drop doesn’t mean you have to stop mountain biking. Before the snow flies weekly in western mountain ...

The film charts the rise of passionate climbers who created St. Boniface’s 60-foot ice tower, and the community that rose up ...