Less than two hours from Chicago, there lies a hidden and frozen gem that draws adventure seekers from all over the country. At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just ...

Climbing hundreds of feet up an ice column, with Lake Superior surging below, is not for everybody … but it is for this winter-hungry crew. Traverse City photographer Erik Olsen takes us ice climbing ...

From Jan. 22-25, Ouray will be celebrating its 31st anniversary of hosting the esteemed event. That's 31 years of dedication and support for the growing ice climbing scene. Despite Ouray being a ...

A new study from Vermont State University found that ice climbing brings more than $6 million and 12,000 visitors annually to the Mount Washington Valley. Until now, it wasn’t clear how much that ...

In collaboration with the owner, Pitkin County on Wednesday took strong initial steps to expand public land access and conservation for the Redstone Castle. They initially approved an easement that ...

Walls of ice went up last Friday for the opening ceremonies of the Ice Climbing World Cup as excited crowds came to watch in Colorado. It's the first Ice Climbing World Cup since 2019 and thousands ...

Military personnel conduct ice climbing on frozen waterfalls in Vermont as part of specialized mountain training. Using ice ...

A house perched on a cliff high above the Tanana River offered the perfect scenic backdrop for an ambitious sporting project: transforming the landscape into a towering ice wall just steps from the ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...