The X-Light takes the same quality forged components and profiled geometries as the X-Dream and X-All Mountain tools, but simplifies the shaft to make it the most suitable axe for low-angle ... solid ...

Multipurpose ice axe for mountaineering up couloirs, classic slopes on north faces and ridges with mixed climbing. With the ability to add the BUMPER support to the pick, enables it to be used in ...

Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor Rob Johnson explains the essentials of choosing and using your first ice axe and crampons for winter mountaineering. Ever year as winter rolls around, you ...

THE ULTIMATE SWING & BITE - The Raptor is our top of the line leashless ice and mixed tool that swings beautifully and bites like a dream; The grip is one-piece molded rubber for comfort ...

King County Prosecutors said an argument over lighting in a living room led a Seattle woman to kill her father with an ice ...

the others would plunge their ice axes into the slope to arrest the fall and anchor the team to the headwall. We climbed to a saddle in the headwall where the most difficult climbing would begin ...

Climbing season is coming to end as winter approaches the Himalaya. Climbs underway to Ama Dablam, Island Peak and Loboche ...

At its core, the design of this backpack is pretty simple: a 38-liter cylinder that you access from the top lid, which has a ...

Fay Manners, originally from Bedfordshire, and her climbing partner ... No warm clothes for the evening. Our ice axes and ...

Ice axes and crampons can damage the ... Tom Carrick, access and conservation officer from the British Mountaineering Council, said: "Winter ice climbing is safest and most enjoyable when the ...