Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor Rob Johnson explains the essentials of choosing and using your first ice axe and crampons for winter mountaineering. Are you brave enough for our top five ...

A video shows a man slamming an ice axe into a frozen waterfall, sending shards cascading down a drop of over 200m. All that's keeping him from following suit is a single screw drilled into the ...

“One of the best sounds in alpine mountaineering is the sound of crampons and ice axes on good firm snow,” he says. The Sandy Glacier flows down a steep bowl about two-thirds of the way up ...