It was late in the afternoon and lightly snowing when four rock climbers, working their way up a steep gully between two peaks in Washington’s North Cascades Range, decided to turn around for a ...

The rescue happened Monday, Dec. 22, after the Transylvania County Rescue Squad discovered two men had spent the previous ...

The autoblock friction hitch is a versatile knot used by climbers, rescuers, and arborists to create a secure, self-adjusting ...

There wasn’t much Marieta Bialek and Austin Zedak were concerned about. They had just successfully skied their two objectives around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22: Conundrum and Castle Peaks, about ...