This story first appeared in the Outdoors newsletter. Click here to learn more and sign up. When Nick Richards was a sweaty 8-year-old at summer camp in the 1990s trying to pull himself up a wall for ...

Chalk dusted climbers' heads as their competitors reached higher and higher. About 35 climbers competed in the annual Rock the Rec, a rock climbing competition held Sunday at the University of Montana ...

As a relatively new climber, I look up and think, There's no way I'm getting up this. The limestone arches overhead in swirls of gray and rusty brown. Look closely, though, and it is carved and pitted ...

It's early in the afternoon of April 30 and a group of rock climbers has gathered at the foot of a sandstone cliff that, in some sections, stretches up to 80 feet tall. For the next hour or so, ...