Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposal by federal agencies that could have severely limited the use of fixed climbing anchors in wilderness areas is now dead, following adoption of ...

Climbers from around the world come to Utah to scale the sheer granite walls in Lone Peak Cirque and American Fork Canyon, often relying on hangers bolted onto the rock to protect them from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mountaineers who have expressed concern over proposed changes to the rules federal agencies use in regulating rock climbing safety equipment in wilderness ...

Climbers in western Colorado know the thrill of working their way up the tricky rock faces of desert canyons and mountain crags. But those who enjoy practicing the sport in remote areas worry they ...

A climbing group of four met with disaster when the anchor securing their ropes -- a piton -- appears to have failed as they were descending in a steep gully, trying to reach the spire’s base in ...

Federal land managers are seeking comments from the public on policies that would impact how climbers in the Cascades and around the United States interact with rock climbing crags. While land ...