Lurking in the background of today’s climbing news lies the exciting and fast-paced, yet least understood climbing genre of ...

"These tiny picks go in and you have to create tension because if you come out, they slide out." While the athletes have ice climbing tools, the biggest wall doesn't have any actual ice on it ...

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 ...

A firefighter attempts a self-rescue using ice picks and other tactics to claw their way back up on to solid ice. Related: 2 people rescued, hospitalized after falling through ice at Shrewsbury ...