America's ice-climbing epicenter was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an ...

They also use crampons, ice screws and carabiners. The conditions have to be just right: When it’s too warm, the ice grows soft and can separate from the rock wall; when it’s too cold, the ice becomes ...

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...

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.

The mountain's volcanic nature and changing weather ... in mountaineering skills including crevasse rescue, snow and ice climbing techniques, glacier travel, and rope work. Consider joining ...

At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just right — in the right kind of weather — for ice climbing. On the day CBS News Chicago joined Dave Everson and Bruce ...

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 ...

Walls of ice went up last Friday for the opening ceremonies of the Ice Climbing World Cup as excited crowds came to watch in Colorado. It's the first Ice Climbing World Cup since 2019 and ...

Combined with the UIAA Continental Cup final, the collaborative efforts between the BMC and the Scottish Dry-Tooling Club will see the UK host its biggest ice climbing event to date. For the first ...

The 9,000 gigatons of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly ... The accelerated loss has made mountain glaciers one of the largest contributors to sea level rise, putting millions at ...