"They were huge roofs and steep faces all over the Shawangunks region," he says today, adding that many "are pretty hair-raising, and so out there and backcountry, and scary." He had been finding ...

Soloing in the Gunks was nothing new in the 1980s. Climbers had been at it for decades, usually on routes well within their capabilities and without true risk involved. Gunks rock is solid stuff and ...

Black Diamond profiles Russ Clune, a man who dedicated his life to climbing in the Gunks of upstate New York. Learn about the crag and watch some scary new-age trad leads in this video. “The Lifer” is ...

William Moss, 18, recently made the first free ascent of Best Things in Life Are Free (BT) at the Gunks's Twilight Zone Buttress. Moss graded the 100-foot pitch 5.14d R, making it one of the world's ...

I’m hanging onto the side of a towering 200-foot cliff wall and a professional climbing instructor is urging me to do something that every muscle in my body is resisting – let go. It is a warm April ...

Eric Waldron remembers the first time he went rock climbing at college. “I was immediately hooked,” said Eric Waldron, climbing school manager of Eastern Mountain Sports in Ulster County. “I went out ...

NEW PALTZ – It’s summer, the season when the sport of rock climbing peaks in popularity as local novices and well-traveled experts flock to the “Gunks” in the New Paltz to cling to sheer rock faces ...