Epics

Question: How do you escape a cloud of angry killer bees when you're hundreds of feet up on a climb? Answer: It's not easy.

A series of brainless miscalculations on Tungurahua, a 16,480-foot volcano in Ecuador.

A moment of decision on McGinnis Peak.

He dropped into a 40-foot crevasse in British Columbia, and the lights went out. When they came back on, it hurt.

When both lead ropes get cut in the Potrero, the author needs the miracle of a lifetime

The pain of an accident goes beyond that of the injured.

The worst sight in the world, at Looking Glass Rock.

A fall in the climbing gym nearly costs an arm: "I looked down in horror. My left arm was hyperextended, pointing the wrong way at the elbow. A nearby climber ran to call an ambulance."

A mis-clipped sling sends a world-class climber plunging toward the deck.

"When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh."

Two camp counsellors blunder into a Southern suffer fest