This year’s North Face Climb Festival, the first held in New York, delivered on its promise of an adrenaline-bound community. With a 55-foot climbing wall anchored into the pier waters, onlookers ...

Rebecca Weber, a participant in the Women's Rockreation Club, scales a rock wall at The Quarry. The club was started to give female climbers a safe space to climb. (Jackie Durfey) The Women’s ...

In the months after she claimed a silver medal in sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, Brooke Raboutou returned to the place where she had once competed as a child prodigy: Arco, Italy. Just outside ...

When Caroline Ciavaldini told me she was organising a workshop (female-focused, but not exclusive!) for this year's Melloblocco, I immediately embraced the idea with enthusiasm, volunteering as ...

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 ...

Encouragement and support makes a huge difference for newcomers, something veteran climbing instructor Elizabeth Joyner always tries to keep in mind when she’s leading Ladies Night at High Steppe ...

A trio of women climbed alongside one another in Hyalite Canyon on Friday morning, each scaling a section of frozen waterfall by slinging axes into the ice above their heads, ...

A Bergen County woman is turning her own breast cancer diagnosis into a mission to help others rediscover their strength. Anyssa founded Genuine Climbing after being diagnosed with breast cancer in ...