After a fatal fall at Emerald Bay's 90 Foot Wall, friends and family recalled Noah Sebastian Ortega Wiley’s relentless drive and deep bond with climbing.
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After a fatal fall at Emerald Bay's 90 Foot Wall, friends and family recalled Noah Sebastian Ortega Wiley’s relentless drive and deep bond with climbing.
Why are the world’s best climbers building their own testpieces instead of confirming each other's? We asked them.
When a climber died on the Greek island last week, witnesses were quick to blame the haphazard response from a local volunteer rescue team. The real culprit? Hundreds of corroded bolts.
For an extra $12,000, the Summit+ permit allows wealthy climbers to skip the bottlenecks, while sticking economy-class mountaineers in designated waiting zones.
Erwan Legrand, 17, made the first ascent of a legendary French sport project, ‘Le Bombé Bleu,’ proposing 5.15b. The key to his success? Leaving his shoes on the ground.
Jarred Jackman fractured three vertebrae in a fall after his rope mysteriously unclipped from his protection.
New insights from the courtroom and European alpinists shed light on how the Grossglockner case splits responsibility among a group of climbers.
The infamous Grossglockner case went to trial on February 19, and the defendant was found guilty.
How a local pioneer went from bedridden to freeing the scariest line in West Virginia's Coopers Rock State Forest—using a very unusual system.
Thomas Hostetler, 30, fell to his death from the Devil’s Kitchen Headwall on January 25.
“Whatever he wanted to do, he pursued it,” his mother said. “He wasn’t someone who would say, ‘I don't know how to do that.’ He would figure it out."
How a split-second decision to try to save one climber may have cost the life of another.
A Climber We Lost: Quentin Lombard passed away on September 18
A Climber We Lost: Benjamin Guigonnet passed away on September 18
A 36-year-old Austrian climber could be jailed for up to three years after leaving his girlfriend to die on the nation's highest peak.
