Just over a week ago, professional climbers Tim Emmett and Klemen Premrl ascended the world’s hardest ice route. Their February 9 line, Mission to Mars—the first climb ever rated Water Ice 13 ...

There's no 'world's hardest aid climb', there are just contenders for the title, but this climb on the world's most famous wall of all is so tough it hasn’t been repeated in more than 20 years.

There's not much that needs to be said about the 200m high Helmcken Falls other than this: it is currently the hardest mixed-route ice and rock climb in the known world. The fourth-highest ...

Will claims it is the hardest route multi-pitch mixed route in the world so far and the coldest he has ever been—now ... something I’ve never had happen in more than 30 years of ice climbing.

Team Notches Back-to-Back Ascents of World's Hardest Ice Climb Professional climbers Tim Emmett and Klemen Premrl ascend 'Mission to Mars' rated as the hardest ice route (WI 13), behind Helmcken ...

Americans Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson completed the first integral ascent and first free ascent of the Italian route “Suerte” on 20,100-foot Peruvian peak Jirishanca ...

Meet, Don Vockeroth, Rossland, British Columbia based, gentle giant of kindness, was known early on for his climbing skills, ...

Italy’s “Excalibur” route begins by stepping off a boulder onto the wall. ... If completed and the consensus agrees with the grade, it would be the hardest rock climb in the world.

Mr. Wejchert is a climber and the author of the forthcoming book “Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.” NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — In the winter of 1973, two climbers ...