Climbers ascend an artificial ice wall in Inje in the northeastern province of Gangwon on Jan. 9, 2025, amid a cold wave hitting the country. (Yonhap) (END) [We Welcome Your News Tips] We invite ...

In addition to the 40-foot ice wall, the competition continued with what is called a dry tooling event on Climbing Collective’s 60-foot outdoor wall. “Dry tooling simulates outdoor ice climbing.

They see the shimmering walls as playgrounds where they can test their physical, mental and technical skills, using gear as sharp as the dagger-like icicles that hang all around them as they carefully ...

According to mountain guide Ermuth, dry-tooling is the best preparation if you want to try climbing steep ice walls. This is exactly why Regli, and four other males and a female climber have ...

This course will teach you what you need to know to take your love of climbing from the gym to the outdoors! Although not required, taking a lead clinic in our climbing gym is recommended as a ...

where you’ll find the world’s largest indoor ice climbing wall (it’s made of 500 tonnes of real ice and snow and towers 12 metres high). Live out the arctic explorer fantasies you didn’t ...

Combined with the UIAA Continental Cup final, the collaborative efforts between the BMC and the Scottish Dry-Tooling Club will see the UK host its biggest ice climbing event to date. For the first ...

With little information to go by, the Austrians Albert Leichtfried, Markus Bendler and photographer Hermann Erber travelled to Japan in search of the country's ice climbing potential. Apart from ...