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 ...

A previous version of this story misstated the nature of the mission and the origins of Brown Girls Climb. The mission is to create inclusive and accessible opportunities for self-identifying women ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Noelia Aponte Silva and Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala started climbing, they felt very isolated and unwelcome. “It just started to feel like in my like, am I the only light brown person that is ...

The young women of Ascend were used to spending their days doing yoga, preparing for mountain climbing excursions and teaching women at mosques in Kabul how to read. The organization, which promotes ...

Adeline Wright is an athletic phenom with the kind of singular focus that makes the greats great. The up-and-coming sport climber is entirely dedicated to her craft. She has developed every muscle for ...

It’s January 2020 and we’re climbing a frozen waterfall in a remote Alpine valley. There isn’t a breath of wind. In the snow-muffled silence, the only sound is the wet crunch of my axe as it cuts into ...