This last May 23, 67-year-old Californian Bill Burke became the oldest American to reach the lofty summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain and one of the fourteen 8,000-meter ... Read More

View the big fall off Gaia Sometimes you got to fall before you learn how to fly, or is it learn how to climb? Anyway, if you’re a climber and you’re ... Read More

In May the speedy Swiss climber Ueli Steck free-climbed Golden Gate (5.13b), a 41-pitch route up the west wall of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Ueli on-sighted or climbed ... Read More

Everest News reports that South Korean alpinists Go Mi-sun and Kim Jae-soo became the first climbers to ever get an 8,000-meter-peak hat trick by summitting three of the big boys ... Read More

After all the bad news out of China in the past couple weeks, here is a bit of good news from the top of the world. Last Wednesday, June 10, Apa ... Read More

Extremely dangerous avalanche conditions coupled with continuing bad weather and daily rockfall led a rescue team of Chinese and American climbers to call off the search for Micah Dash, the ... Read More

The search for Micah Dash, the missing American climber from Boulder, Colorado, was suspended today because of bad weather on Mount Edgar in western China. The rescue team felt that ... Read More

Extremely bad weather has hampered the search efforts for Micah Dash, the last American climber still missing on Mount Edgar, and, reports Xinhua News Agency in China, the multi-national search ... Read More

Here’s a video, made last Saturday and released by the Associated Press, of the Chinese search for the three missing Americans—Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson—on Mount Edgar. It ... Read More

I read this letter that Jeremy Collins, a climbing artist that lives in Kansas City, Missouri, wrote to his friend Jonny Copp and posted on-line at the Adventure Film Festival ... Read More

Xinhua News Agency in China reports the recovery of a second body from avalanche debris on Mount Gongga in Sichuan Province. In bad weather, high winds and heavy snow, a ... Read More

The body of Jonny Copp, a 35-year-old climber from Boulder, Colorado, was positively identified by photographs early this morning. Copp was found yesterday in avalanche debris at 13,100 feet on ... Read More

Here is a wonderful portrait of Micah Dash that Columbian photographer Claudia López sent to me to use on About.com. Claudia made this photograph of Micah at the Paradox ice ... Read More

The latest news from China is that Xinhua News Agency, China’s official news organization, has named the three American climbers—Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson—as the victims of an ... Read More

Bad news from China about the missing American climbers. Xinhua News Agency in China reports that the body on an American climber has been found on Mount Edgar in the remote ... Read More

Two of America’s best mountaineers, 35-year-old Jonny Copp and 30-year-old Micah Dash, are missing in the mountains of the Sichuan Province in western China along with 24-year-old Wade Johnson, who ... Read More

After four years, the trail up popular Colorado Fourteeners 14,286-foot Mount Lincoln and 14,148 Mount Democrat reopened on June 1. The problem began when private land owners on the mountains, ... Read More