James Watts, 24, of New York, died on March 1 while soloing Pinnacle Gully on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Watts was swept off the route by an avalanche and fell approximately 1,000 feet down the WI 3 route. ...

Three more climbers have died in the Cairngorms of Scotland, bringing the total of avalanche deaths in the area to seven since late January....

Robert Andrew Prosser, 60, of Edmonds, Washington, was killed January 13 in a fall from the top of an ice climb at milepost 8 of State Roue 155 near Coulee City. ...

Three climbers were injured including an Iraqi War veteran on a fund-raising climb when an avalanche ripped down Central Gully in Huntington Ravine on New Hampshire's Mount Washington. ...

An avalanche has swept six climbers off the Scottish Highlands peak Bidean nam Bian, 3,772 feet high, near Church Door Buttress, killing four and seriously injuring a fifth....

On June 23 two groups from area gyms were climbing at crags along the Meadow River in the New River Gorge, West Virginia. Instructors from the gyms were guiding the climbers and both groups were overseen by an AMGA-certified rock-climbing instructor. ...

The Triple Cracks alcove at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area near Fredericksburg, Texas, is an open space not much bigger than a good-sized living room. Shaded by huge oaks, with a natural granite bench and housing three moderate, tall, clean cracks, the alcove can be a popular site for climbers to congregate. ...

On the morning of June 22, 2010, Joseph Miller began leading the second pitch of the Yellow Spur (5.10a), one of the most popular routes on the Redgarden Wall in Eldorado Canyon near Boulder, Colorado. Miller’s belayer was anchored to a tree and paid out slack as Miller traversed to the base of a short dihedral, placing a nut and a .4 Camalot along the way....

On the morning of February 5, two climbers (who requested anonymity) were halfway up the second pitch of Glenwood Falls, a popular ice formation just east of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The leader, an experienced ice climber, was accustomed to leading using a system where he would climb until he got pumped, plant a tool and yell down “fifi on,” a request for slack....

On November 21, two climbers from Canmore, Alberta, made the long approach to Planter’s Valley, a canyon on the south side of Devil’s Gap in Canada’s Ghost River Wilderness Area. They started up the first pitch of the 330-foot Weathering Heights (WI 4)....

As fixed draws are becoming more prevalent at popular sport-climbing areas, instances of ropes being “sheathed” (where the mantle of the rope is stripped away from the core) by sharply grooved carabiners are also becoming more common. ...

On October 16, a 29-year-old climber from the Bay area arrived at the second anchors of the two-pitch sport climb Members Only (5.10d) at Owens River Gorge and prepared to descend....

Yosemite's leaning tower hangs like a tilted ironing board over the Merced River. Tipping out at an average of 110 degrees, and less featured than El ......

In May, 2002, the striking snow and rock cone of Oregon's Mount Hood, called the Mount Fuji of North America, made national headlines when an Air Force Reserve Pavehawk helicopter lost power, crashed and rolled 1,000 feet down the mountain during an attempted climbing rescue. Earlier that day, four climbers were descending from just below the mountain's 11,239-foot summit, passing near several rock towers known as the Pearly Gates. ...