This is the moment a huge chunk of ice broke off a glacier and plunged into the water on the Vallunaraju mountain in Peru on ...

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.

After enduring deep crevasses and vast ice sheets, visitors are met with breathtaking vistas that make every step of the ...

ice axes, crampons, harnesses and ropes. Mountain climbing takes place in mountainous areas and requires the skills of walking, scrambling, rock and ice climbing. Mountaineering can also be called ...

by local Mountain Guide Albert Leichtfried. Austria's Tyrol isn't only a summer hotspot for rock climbing fanatics, it's also an important and popular destination for winter ice climbing. The region ...

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 ...

It was the Ice Climbing and Dry Tooling World Cup. “You’ve got objects hanging from the outdoor structure that flow back-and-forth, so you have got to have nerves of steel. These folks are ...

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 ...

Combined with the UIAA Continental Cup final, the collaborative efforts between the BMC and the Scottish Dry-Tooling Club will see the UK host its biggest ice climbing event to date. For the first ...

In February, they came. Eighty-five male and female athletes from 15 countries traveled thousands of miles to Longmont to scale a mere 40 feet.