Today, however, you don't have to scale the sheer walls of Beacon Rock with climbing spikes to see the incredible Pacific Northwest views -- you can just take the Beacon Rock Hike. There are ...

Behind the village rises a sheer 3,000-foot cliff that shimmers ... A thousand feet above us Alex is climbing, antlike, up the rock wall. The Althouris are beside themselves.

This is not true. Climbing at high altitude on snow, ice and rock is not the same as scaling sheer granite rock walls. Both rock and mountain climbing require a high level of conditioning ...

Would you know what to do if you suddenly came face to face with an aggressive bear? What if you were hanging onto a sheer ...

On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130 ... which means climbing with only a powdery chalk bag and rock shoes—no rope, no ...