Where to Climb

The world’s 14 highest mountains are an exclusive club of peaks whose summits tower more than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) above sea level.The Eight Thousanders all lie in the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in central Asia.

The Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum is devoted to mountains and climbers with lots of exhibits and displays on mountain culture, geography, geology, and climbing.

California, with the highest peak in the contiguous US, offers 13 Fourteeners or peaks above 14,000 feet for climbers. Check out this complete list of all the Fourteeners, their elevations and mountain ranges, and 10 sub-peaks.

The Seven Summits, a well-known mountaineering objective, are the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. Learn here about these seven mountains and climbing them.

Yoga Cave, a small cave system in England's Peak District, offers an excellent caving adventure for novice cavers. The cave is relatively easy to explore and has a notorious section called The Corpse Crawl where the caver has to crawl through a passageway half-filled with water.

Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is a popular peak for lots of climbers. Learn basic information to climb Kilimanjaro, including acclimatization, finding an outfitter, hiring anguides and porters, and why it's such a strenuous climb.

Learn lots of interesting facts about Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Borneo and a refuge for exotic plants and orangutans.

Learn interesting facts and history about Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts.

Zion National Park in southwest Utah is one of America's greatest sandstone climbing area. Climbers come to ascend big walls and to jam shorter crack climbs in Zion Canyon, a deep canyon carved by the Virgin River and lined with soaring cliffs up to 2,500 feet high.

Acadia National Park on the central Maine coast is one of the best rock climbing areas in the eastern United States. Acadia also offers Otter Cliff, the best sea cliff climbing area in the country. Climbers come to Acadia to toprope at Otter Cliff and South Bubble, and to climb excellent multi-pitch routes on The Precipice. Start planning your...

Joshua Tree National Park in southern California is simply one of the best climbing areas in the United States. J-Tree offers over 8,000 climbing routes and boulder problems, including bolted sport routes and steep jam cracks on granite cliffs, outcrops, pinnacles, and rock piles in the high desert east of Los Angeles.

Carderock, a small cliff band along the east bank of the Potomac River in Maryland, is a popular rock climbing area northwest of Washington DC. Find out all about Carderock, its metamorphic rock, climbing history, essential climbing equipment, the best seasons, and how to find Carderock.