Public comments are being sought as national forests, grasslands and parks adopt guidelines to manage recreational climbing. The Forest Service and National Park Service are taking input through Jan.

Decades ago, indoor rock climbing might have sounded like a contradiction. But indoor climbing walls are now available at a number of Westchester and Rockland facilities. There’s the Cliffs at ...

New guidance from federal land managers seems to require an inventory and review of all existing bolts and fixed anchors in wilderness areas Heavily anticipated plans to revamp rock climbing ...

Creating new rock, ice and mountain climbing routes — and even climbing or maintaining existing ones — could become heavily regulated and restricted by the federal government under a joint proposal ...

Of all people, it was a jiu-jitsu partner who asked Bryce Mahoney if he wanted to go on an outdoor climbing excursion to Pilot Mountain. Mahoney said, “Sure, why not?” The agreement required him to ...