After summiting, it's easy to feel like the challenge is over and all that remains are a few simple raps. Your situational awareness and risk perception change, distracting you from the necessary ...

On July 4, Bryan Caldwell and his partner were climbing R&D, a 300-foot 5.6 trad route on the Icicle Buttress, near Leavenworth, Washington. When bad weather moved in, they chose to rappel. His ...

I n Yosemite National Park, granite walls rise straight from the valley floor. El Capitan is the park's most legendary cliff ...

Rescuers rushed to reach the stranded climber on Mount Whitney, a California nonprofit said. Photo from Ross Stone via Unsplash CORRECTION: A previous version of this article previously misstated the ...

Three people are dead, and another is injured after falling off of a mountain in a climbing accident involving a suspected failed anchor while they were rappelling, police said. The Okanogan County ...

A man was found dead from an apparent rappelling accident in Death Valley after a package in an abandoned tent sent rangers looking for him. The 54-year-old man, whose name was not released, was found ...

The Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office, along with Okanogan County Search and Rescue volunteers, received a call at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday about a climbing accident in the area of North ...

The story was updated with the proper distance. The corrected story is below. A climber was injured rappelling a California mountain, leaving them stranded on a ledge, rescuers say. Inyo County Search ...