A proposal by the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service to restrict the use of fixed anchors is now dead.

Authorities in Utah are searching for whoever banged climbing anchors into the site of an ancient outdoor engraving carved by Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. The bolts — which climbers ...

Last Wednesday, the National Park Service withdrew a proposal that would have established regulations governing the installation and replacement of climbing anchors, spurred in part by Sen.

"These policies are of detrimental impact to the safety and future of American rock climbing, and would classify fixed anchors as “prohibited installations” in Wilderness areas," wrote the ...

It also officially allows for the use of fixed rock-climbing anchors, resolving an earlier controversy in which some areas sought to restrict such anchors in national forest and park areas.

A proposal by federal agencies that could have severely limited the use of fixed climbing anchors in wilderness areas is now dead, following adoption of legislation signed into law by President ...

The new law resolves an ongoing issue within the rock climbing community by officially sanctioning permanent safety anchors on climbing routes in national parks, including the Nose on El Capitan ...