“Climbing [here] is out of this world,” Premrl wrote on his website. “It’s an incredible experience being surrounded by thousands of ice daggers and a raging waterfall. It’s a powerful ...

known for its extreme technical challenges. Beyond the park, the surrounding San Juan Mountains offer a wealth of natural ice ...

Fred Rouhling. A name which evokes images of the utmost extreme, the intense, unrepeated or simply downright impossible. A name which from the second half of the ‘90’s onwards created an important ...

Ice climbing without ice ... I associate courage, heroism, extreme experience and madness with the north face. North faces are dark and forbidding, reserved for the best mountaineers, and even ...

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 ...

Professional ice climber Will Gadd rates nine ice-climbing scenes in movies and television shows for realism. He discusses the accuracy of ice-climbing techniques in "Game of Thrones" (2013 ...

In 2015, pro climber Will Gadd made the first-ever ice climb up Niagara Falls, setting up his line on the American side of the falls on Terrapin Point. Back in 2015, Gadd made the first-ever ice ...

America's ice-climbing epicenter was facing a bleak future, with climate change endangering its water supply, until an unlikely savior came to its rescue: a nearby silver mine. Nestled in the ...