Military personnel conduct ice climbing on frozen waterfalls in Vermont as part of specialized mountain training. Using ice ...

Climbing hundreds of feet up an ice column, with Lake Superior surging below, is not for everybody … but it is for this winter-hungry crew. Traverse City photographer Erik Olsen takes us ice climbing ...

Catalina Shirley, 22, is looking forward to a competitive adventure in February that involves twisting herself into a pretzel, then climbing horizontally over free-hanging air, underneath a cube, ...

The art of climbing frozen waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park. Frozen waterfalls are an ephemeral phenomenon found in bitterly cold mountain gullies. Most people are happy just to admire the ice, ...

Which helmet for ice climbing is best? Few outdoor activities can be as exhilarating as mountain climbing. If you want to take that a step further though, climbing up an ice cliff or traversing frozen ...

Less than two hours from Chicago, there lies a hidden and frozen gem that draws adventure seekers from all over the country. At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arvada’s Ian Umstead has competed internationally in two sports, first in Europe as a young cyclist aspiring to race professionally, now as an elite ice ...

Catalina Shirley competes in the 2019 Ice Climbing World Tour in Denver. Credit: Levi Harrell / UIAA There’s forty feet of ice towering above Catalina Shirley. The Lafayette resident is moments away ...

The Adirondack Mountains are known as an ice climbing destination; there are around 600 ice climbing routes for climbers to tackle when conditions are good. This winter's conditions have been a bit ...

Near the frozen, wind-buffeted summit of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak, lie some of the most ancient nonpolar ice deposits anywhere in the world. The glacial ice there—which, although unconfirmed ...