As a recent historic climb attests, Olympians Brooke Raboutou and Janja Garnbret are pushing women’s outdoor climbing, and each other, to new heights.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A once-celebrated rock climber was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for repeatedly raping a woman hiker in Yosemite National ...

Ms. DiGiulian is a professional climber. Women’s climbing is having an incredible moment. Built on the shoulders of 30-plus years of accomplishments, women are making ever more first ascents and ...

Looking up at the granite wall before me, I feel a mix of nerves and excitement as I tie my harness to the rope. Here, in the rugged wadis – an Arabic word for a deep valley carved into the mountain – ...

PARIS — Two-time Olympians, American climber Brooke Raboutou and Slovenia's Janja Garnbret had a teary embrace after Garnbret came down from her lead climb. Garnbret successfully defended her gold ...

Female mountain climbers face more obstacles than men when climbing the Himalayan mountain K2, but they choose to do so anyway for the thrill it provides, according to Jennifer Jordan, a journalist ...

“It’s kind of like that feeling after you get to the top of a climb—without the physicality, but you put in a lot mentally,” Sasha DiGiulian tells me of her emotions right now. After four years of ...

In a memoir published in December, professional mountaineer and former Miss Finland Lotta Hintsa briefly described an upsetting incident with a “very famous male climber” whom she didn’t name. During ...