At 3:25 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgensen ended a 19-day free-climbing expedition, ascending El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park. Although others had ...

Twelve years ago, Shaun Daggett was at a job interview in Colorado Springs, and although he declined the position, the company told him to think about it for a while — a suggestion that ended up ...

WALLINGFORD — If when she was younger you asked Choate Rosemary Hall rising senior Emma Schwerin if she enjoyed hiking, she’d have told you she didn’t get the point. Why climb up a mountain just to ...

It was part of Steinwald’s journey to summit the tallest peak on each continent. Already she’s climbed the tallest peaks in North and South America. Steinwald told the Idaho Statesman in an email that ...

The spring climbing season has come to an end on Mt. Everest. The annual phenomenon of the Jet Stream moving several hundred miles north of the Himalayas, which allows mountaineers to attempt Mt.

Given the places he's gone, you wouldn't think much would scare world-renowned photographer and filmmaker Cory Richards. He came close to death, as seen in his short film Cold, while mountain-climbing ...