A new cohort of titles, including this year’s ‘Cairn’, lets players taste the ecstasy — and heart-pounding terror — of alpinism ...

Only the top multisport athletes will head to the Rocky Mountains this spring to compete for the title—and now you can help ...

New mountain-climbing indie game Cairn celebrates its launch success, offering a more atmospheric, personal twist on the ...

Cairn gives you a chance to see how you'd fare at climbing Mount Everest on Steam Deck, and in all honesty, I'm not very good at climbing in this indie game.

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs ...

On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ...

Climbing a mountain in a video game can feel great when the gameplay is fine-tuned to a T. This is downright necessary in titles where this is the sole gameplay loop, which is understandable. If ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Cairn is another change of tune for The Game Bakers, hitherto known for the nimble RPG snogging of Haven and the gimlet-eyed boss-rushing of Furi. Also the *squints* cephalopoddy eco activism of ...