Each winter, ice climbing festivals occur around the United States. Take a trip one of these popular ice fests to meet new ...

During winter months many climbers turn their attention to ice climbing. Words such as verglas ... Notes: The information published here is not complete. Please refer to the Mountain Guides' technical ...

Plenty exists for even the least initiated, including Yamnuska Mountain Adventures. They have been operating for over 40 years as a premier ice climbing school where you can learn everything you ...

What drives a person to climb dry rock faces with ice gear? The answer is simple: the desire for ice. Dry-tooling is the name of this mountain-sport discipline that seems strange to the uninitiated.

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

The Cog Railway was built in 1869 and brings tourists to a New Hampshire summit that showman P.T. Barnum called "the second ...

With little information to go by, the Austrians Albert Leichtfried, Markus Bendler and photographer Hermann Erber travelled to Japan in search of the country's ice climbing potential. Apart from ...

Once among the jumbled ice blocks, we moved quickly ... What about the brutally cold moments of panic that set in when we'd climb into the mountain's shadow, and the temperature would suddenly ...

Mr Kowshik - along with mountain guides Tsewang Namgyal and Rigzin Tsewang - has also organised ice climbing festivals in the Siachen Valley in Ladakh. Mr Namgyal, who is from Ladakh, says that ...

it did seem like it was going to be a formidable mountain to climb. "However, as a team we worked extremely hard and pulled through what was a very challenging period for the business. Ice Factor ...

Just because the temps drop doesn’t mean you have to stop mountain biking. Before the snow flies weekly in western mountain ...

The film charts the rise of passionate climbers who created St. Boniface’s 60-foot ice tower, and the community that rose up ...