Rock climbing was a niche culture in 1990, Stipksy said. That community was very closely knit, but it grew as the Millennial ...

Steve Longenecker is a consummate educator. Beyond his passion for rock climbing, Steve has a penchant for venomous snakes and birds of prey.

In some ways, Frederick Law Olmsted made Ashima Shiraishi a climber. She was 6 when she first tried to scale Rat Rock, a long, low outcropping of Manhattan schist in Central Park, just north of ...

Kids like Nate Brant, who has a small left hand he calls his "lucky fin," are clipping in and climbing to new heights at Camp Rock. The camp in Oaks, Pennsylvania, was created by the Children's ...