Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor Rob Johnson explains the essentials of choosing and using your first ice axe and crampons for winter mountaineering. Ever year as winter rolls around, you ...

Crampons are essential tools for mountaineers and alpinists, providing the wearer with unbeatable traction on steep, icy ...

Travelers should pack ice axes in checked luggage when traveling ... Can You Bring GPS Trackers and Other GPS Devices on ...

Salem ice climber Forrest "Frosty" Gill explains the fun and challenge of ascending frozen waterfalls and ice flows across ...

seconds before the thin smear gives way beneath his ice axes and crampons. As can be seen the climber had placed a short ice screw, but according to the information available on the web, in all ...

"Have you ever stopped climbing?" I ask him, "I haven’t skipped a season, ever since my motorbike broke down 35 years ago and instead of buying a new engine I picked up a couple of ice axes and ...

Therefore, Regli is equipped with two ice axes and crampons. He looks for suitable cracks using the pick, and then pulls himself up. Ice climbing without ice. What drives a person to climb dry ...

Glacier hiking in Iceland is unlike any other experience. The eerie silence that surrounds these frozen lands adds to the adventure. The expanses of ice and snow absorb sound, giving the hikers an ...