Between the sounds of crunching dirt and the clinking of carabiners, words of encouragement and laughter filled the air at McDowell Mountain last month. “Everyone is so supportive and wonderful, and ...

Looking up at the granite wall before me, I feel a mix of nerves and excitement as I tie my harness to the rope. Here, in the rugged wadis – an Arabic word for a deep valley carved into the mountain – ...

Edward Whymper paved the way for mountaineers to start climbing the Matterhorn and while you would be right in assuming that mountaineering was a boys club, that wasn't the full picture. After all, a ...

A woman who was born in Sonora, grew up in Groveland and Yosemite Valley, and has extensive rock climbing and mountaineering ...

STRATTON — Stratton Mountain has a new attraction. Stratton Mountain Resort opened its two-story climbing gym, Climb Stratton Rocks and Boulders, last month. “It was super well received. We had a lot ...

“When I told my coach I wanted to play soccer in college, he said, ‘You’ll never play in college.’” She went to Colby College ...