Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak, offers a thrilling ice climbing experience for the adventurous. The challenge of ...

For more than 40 years, Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Corey Buhay Alaska’s hardiest residents have gathered around the frozen ...

LAKE GEORGE — The Front Range Climbing Company has been farming ice in Eleven Mile Canyon for 15 years in order to annually create an ice wall; over the past two years the wall has become a weekly ...

As I inched up a frozen waterfall on the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park, kicking my crampon spikes into milky columns of ice and swinging an ax above my head, I heard just one thing over my ...

Climbers scale the Beer Garden wall at the Lake City Ice Park this February. In the 1990s, the park was started by a motley crew of carpenters and raft guides who shared a passion for the sport.

Once upon a time, ice climbing was less of a weekend hobby and more of a general necessity for people living in frozen, icy climes. If you lived in the Alps or the Himalayas before tunnels were ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arvada’s Ian Umstead has competed internationally in two sports, first in Europe as a young cyclist aspiring to race professionally, now as an elite ice ...