Mountain Climbing News

James Franco , hot and getting hotter , has been tapped to star in Oscar winner Danny Boyle's next film , 127 Hours, a mountaineering adventure based on the true story of American climber Aron Ralston.

A STUDENT hopes to scale a perilous 1,000m high sheer cliff face in Patagonia without the help of a climbing rope.

Being suspended by rope 43 feet in the air will test your faith in knots. For this reporter, whose knowledge of technical climbing stemmed mainly from the Sylvester Stallone flick "Cliffhanger," the wall seemed much higher on a recent visit to a new indoor climbing gym in Colorado Springs.

The Dec. 29 Statesman Journal contained a letter that implied mountain climbers are careless and all should be required to carry locator units.

It doesna t always turn out this way. But a childhood dream, when fulfilled, sometimes ends up being better than one coulda ve imagined.

The Third Da Lat Flower Festival will wind up tonight, January 4, farewelling thousands of visitors who have filled the tree-lined streets of the mountain resort city.

An organisation in Serbia is bringing out the best in the country's disabled athletes.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE, Basra, Iraq, Dec. 28, 2009 - Toward the end of every soldiera s deployment comes the time to decide whata s next.

Three 18-year-olds were recovering today after being rescued by mountain-climbing volunteers and a helicopter crew from above the 10,000-foot mark on snowbound Mount San Jacinto.

Indonesian top mountaineering group, Wanadri, from Bandung of West Java province will conduct mountain climbing expedition to the seven world's highest peaks in three years, starting from May 2010, Antara news agency quoted one of group's staffs as saying on Tuesday.

We hiked on packed snow inside thick gray clouds for most of the morning. At around 5,000 feet elevation, the milky fog brightened for a moment, then the clouds suddenly parted to reveal the entire mountain.

If you want adventure British Columbia is definitely the place to be. Its amazing terrain offers everything from golfing, fishing, kayaking, sailing, windsurfing, hiking, mountain climbing, mountain biking, heli-hiking, snowboarding, hunting, diving, hang gliding, or beach combing.

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The achievement, made by the via ferrata developer, Mountain Torq Sdn Bhd, is also Malaysia's 38th Guinness World Records certification.

A man almost lost his foot after a terrible accident, but a huge break-through in medicine saved his smashed up leg.

Crawford, Stephanie. "How Mountain Bike Trails Work." 05 October 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 19 December 2009.

An Oregon National Guard Blackhawk helicopter flies over cloud-shrouded Mount Hood on Monday, searching for missing climbers Anthony Vietti, 24, of Longview, Wash., and Katie Nolan, 29, of Portland.

Ukyo Katayama, who contested 97 Grands Prix in a career spanning 6 seasons, has been rescued after getting into difficulties whilst climbing Mount Fuji .

The Naked Edge in profile. a On Monday, my colleague Ted Alvarez posted a video link to Erik Weihenmayer ascending the Naked Edge .

On a November day last year, 79-year-old lawyer Yoshiharu Asano set out on a solo hiking expedition on the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture.