Climbing

The Italian-made Click Up is an auto-locking belay device that employs an HMS carabiner to do the hard work.

Wyoming climbing guide Frank Sanders once scaled Devils Tower 365 times in one year. Now, he’s promoting a charity to help Native Americans. The name:…

Troy Aupperle, founder of a nutrition products company, climbed the tallest mountains in the world. Ice axes and enzyme capsules helped along the way.

Sara Lingafelter, a writer and rock climber from Seattle, talks about Expedition Hanesbrands and her trip to Mount Pumori, a 23,494-foot peak on the Nepal-Tibet…

Expedition Hanesbrands’ climb this month in Nepal is a gear test and a “warm up” before Mount Everest this spring.

As reported in the Minneapolis City Pages newspaper this morning, “Minneapolis climber plans to tweet from Mt. Everest.” (That would be me.)

“Expedition Champion,” a multi-month expedition to climb Mount Everest in spring 2010, was officially launched this morning.

Metolius developed a full-strength, mini carabiner that can help climbers shed weight from their rack.

Morton’s Toe is when the second toe is longer than the big toe. The Evolv Demorto shoes were built for climbers with this condition.

Many rock climbers love Aliens. Not creatures from space that burst out of your belly, but the cams made by Colorado Custom Hardware. Technically called…

In early May, on a trip to climb the 14,179-foot stratovolcano of Mount Shasta in northern California, I spent what has been my most harrowing…

Last week I traveled to Ogden, Utah, on assignment for New York Times. My gig: Climb the nation’s newest via ferrata routes in Waterfall Canyon…

The philosophy of going fast and light through the mountains has been universally embraced by climbers. In lieu of fixed ropes, heavy packs and pound-in…

Metolius recently debuted several rock-climbing products with safety features that exceed the industry standard. The company built redundancies into its harnesses, beefed up its ropes,…