Mountain Climbing News

Should climbing be a sport in the Olympic Games ? It's a question that's been debated for twenty years now since the first climbing World Cup in 1989.

MOUNTAIN climbing is challenging for anyone, but try tackling passes among the world's highest peaks half starved.

Armenia, which recently has made headlines as an adventure travel destination because of numerous mountains and cheap prices yesterday started it's first international mountain climbing festival called Arev.

COULD you climb the three highest peaks in Mayo Mweelrea, Croagh Patrick and Nephin in one day? Well, if yes is your answer then here's your chance to prove it.

Many people try to start businesses. And there are those who try to climb mountains.

Location In the South of Europe, on the Balkan, in Macedonia, a small country with lots of mountains with great beauthiful landscapes.

After going only 1,100 miles of the approximately 4,400 planned over 18 days, they had to put their trip on hold for a few days due to illness, but Brentwood residents Jay and Sam Wilcox and their cousin Ben Wilcox from the suburbs of Chicago plan to be back on the road Saturday to complete their bicycle ride across America.

When Johnny Strange climbed the 29,035 feet of Mt. Everest, he not only reached the highest point in the world, he scaled the tallest peak on his sixth continent.

A Tacoma mountain climbing teacher is in the hospital after a fall during a climb on Mt.

BREMERTON, Wash. a ' Chris Bruce had no trouble climbing Mount Adams. Getting down was another story.

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Andrew Swanson's casket is removed from First Presbyterian Church in Mankato, where Thursday services were held for the 36-year-old Mankato physician.

A Welcome to Number 26 in our continuing series profiling the men and women who put the extra coat of shellac on the woodworking class project that is Reprise Media .

Donell Humphrey, assistant manager of Boulder's new Movement Climbing and Fitness gym, applies texturing to a climbing wall at the 2845 Valmont Road complex, which is set to open July 25.

A BRITISH woman who extended her mountain climbing holiday by a DAY fell 300ft to her death just hours before she was due to fly home.

Young athletes competed in Southwest Divisional, the state's largest indoor rock climbing contest, Saturday in Harker Heights.

International Mountain Climbing School offers mountaineering courses in rock and ice climbing.

Almost one year ago to the day, weather forecasts were potentially treacherous on Washington's Mount Rainier when a Menlo Park man attempted to reach its highest peak to raise money for diabetes outreach in San Mateo County.

Two experienced climbers fell more than 2,000 feet to their deaths on Alaska's Mount McKinley, raising this year's death toll on the mountain to four, officials said Friday.

HERO Phil Packer is writing an exclusive blog for The Sun so we can track his progress.