Mountain Climbing News

A North Bend arborist is using his climbing skills for a higher purpose rescuing cats stuck in trees! In addition to managing trees, Shaun Sears and Tom Otto operate "Canopy Cat Rescue."

No longer the "Gortex vortex" of outdoor retailing, Mountain Equipment Co-op has launched the first major rebranding since its founding to acknowledge that its customers are as likely to be engaging in yoga or paddle boarding as they are mountain climbing or whitewater kayaking.

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls .

Age is no barrier: Eighty-year-old Yuichiro Miura faces the summit of Mount Everest on his way to becoming the oldest person ever to climb the world's highest mountain.

When I last wrote about Wally Glover, I was fairly certain his mountain climbing days were over.

Stevenson High School graduate and Buffalo Grove native Dave Roskelley holds a laminated Stevenson High School sports logo sign which he left at the summit of Mount Everest.

June 7, 2013 marks the hundred year anniversary of the first summit of Denali, known as Mt.

Philippe Ribiere rubbed chalk on his gnarled hands and spread himself across tiny holds on the climbing wall.

The twin summits remember perhaps the most famous of all mountaineering failures.

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ISLAMABAD: The first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest says she wants her achievement to stand as an inspiration to all the women of her troubled country that they can achieve their dreams.

Police have issued a stern warning to anyone wanting to launch their own search for missing Canadian bushwalker Prabhdeep Srawn.

Crag features Located on the coast of Cascais, Portugal, between the town and the sport climbing area of Farol Da Guia, about 30 minutes drive from Lisbon or an equally short train journey, and about 20 minutes walk from the train station in Cascais.

Seven children of Felda settlers who had participated in the Felda Everest 2013 project returned here tonight after having climbed the world's highest mountain on May 21 and 23.

A victory for civilised man over wild nature, a triumph of the individual will, Petrarch's ascent of Mont Ventoux in 1336 has often been regarded as the start of the Renaissance.

All this week, check back for our series of profiles on local athletes competing at the Go Pro Mountain Games this weekend.

Over the past nine summers, more than 19,000 kids and adults have taken up the challenge to Get Movin'. Sydney Norton, 12, of Marysville, was one of them.

Rising 8,848m above sea level, Mt. Qomolangma or Mount Everest, the world's highest summit, is the main peak of the Himalayas.

For those who failed geology, Mount Everest, at 29,029 feet, is the highest elevation above sea level.

On the morning of May 19, Mason Robison and Marc Venery awoke to a bright, brisk spring day in Yosemite National Park.