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 ...

Balin Miller, a noted mountain and rock climber, fell to his death this week at the El Capitan rock formation in California's ...

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 ...