Indoor climbing is a tricky sport to track. That’s why Spanish startup Lizcore caught TechCrunch’s eye at MWC earlier this year. The team of two co-founders — led by CEO Edgar Casanovas Lorente, a ...

You’ve heard of avalanche safety courses—perhaps your backcountry partners have been urging you to take one—how they equip you to make better decisions in terrain that could avalanche, and how to save ...

Climbing safety equipment and techniques have come a long way from the early days of the sport. Back then, equipment often failed or was simply not available resulting in the lead climber’s motto of ...

Some quick thoughts and an "outburst" by Nicola Tondini - Italian mountain guide and director of the King Rock climbing wall in Verona - about sport climbing safety. Safe climbing must begin with big ...

Climbing a rock face, opening a new route and rejoicing when you reach the summit: this is mountaineering, a challenge against the mountain and against yourself whether it’s on rock, snow, ice or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mountaineers who have expressed concern over proposed changes to the rules federal agencies use in regulating rock climbing safety equipment in wilderness ...