Fifty feet above the ground, clinging to a sheer wall of gabbro 80 feet high, Duluth’s Adam Dailey begins to disappear. He’s doing a training climb on mixed rock and ice at Casket Quarry, a popular ...

Mixed climbing combines the techniques of ice climbing and rock climbing, allowing for travel over all types of terrain. In ”Mixed Climbing,” author Sean Isaac describes a new movement in sport ...

Walls of ice went up last Friday for the opening ceremonies of the Ice Climbing World Cup as excited crowds came to watch in Colorado. It's the first Ice Climbing World Cup since 2019 and thousands ...

Catalina Shirley competes in the 2019 Ice Climbing World Tour in Denver. Credit: Levi Harrell / UIAA There’s forty feet of ice towering above Catalina Shirley. The Lafayette resident is moments away ...

DENVER (KDVR) — For the first time since 2019, the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup is returning to the U.S. in 2025 with a stop in Colorado next month. The event is part of the 2024-2025 UIAA Ice Climbing ...

Britain's Pete Whittaker is one of the world's most experienced trad climbers with cutting-edge first ascents and hard repeats to his name. These span the spectrum, from short and desperate gritstone ...