As it continues to surge in popularity, we take a look at dry tooling, its history and how the pursuit emerged from mixed ...

Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor Rob Johnson explains the essentials of choosing and using your first ice axe and crampons for winter mountaineering. Ever year as winter rolls around, you ...

Crampons are essential tools for mountaineers and alpinists, providing the wearer with unbeatable traction on steep, icy ...

Salem ice climber Forrest "Frosty" Gill explains the fun and challenge of ascending frozen waterfalls and ice flows across ...

"Have you ever stopped climbing?" I ask him, "I haven’t skipped a season, ever since my motorbike broke down 35 years ago and instead of buying a new engine I picked up a couple of ice axes and ...

The pleasure and the satisfaction will be enhanced when the right tools are at hand, such as the X-Dream ice axe – a classic that needs no introduction – the Blade Runner crampon, unbeatable when it ...