http://climbing.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Climbing GuideSite. http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hi http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2009-06-30T17:30:49Z Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/07/04/competition-climbing-set-for-world-games-in-taiwan.htm Should climbing be a sport in the Olympic Games? It’s a question that’s been debated for twenty years now since the first climbing World Cup in 1989. Competition climbing, no... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/07/04/competition-climbing-set-for-world-games-in-taiwan.htm Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:54:10 +0000 2009-07-04T13:54:10Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/30/three-us-senior-citizens-summit-mt-everest.htm This last May 23, 67-year-old Californian Bill Burke became the oldest American to reach the lofty summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain and one of the fourteen 8,000-meter... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/30/three-us-senior-citizens-summit-mt-everest.htm Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:49 +0000 2009-06-30T17:30:49Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/27/wild-climbing-fall-off-gaia-in-england.htm View the big fall off Gaia Sometimes you got to fall before you learn how to fly, or is it learn how to climb? Anyway, if you’re a climber and you’re... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/27/wild-climbing-fall-off-gaia-in-england.htm Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:23:01 +0000 2009-06-27T12:23:01Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/24/ueli-steck-nearly-on-sights-el-capitan.htm In May the speedy Swiss climber Ueli Steck free-climbed Golden Gate (5.13b), a 41-pitch route up the west wall of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Ueli on-sighted or climbed... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/24/ueli-steck-nearly-on-sights-el-capitan.htm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:37:55 +0000 2009-06-24T19:37:55Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/20/korean-climbers-score-8000-meter-hat-trick-in-nepal.htm Everest News reports that South Korean alpinists Go Mi-sun and Kim Jae-soo became the first climbers to ever get an 8,000-meter-peak hat trick by summitting three of the big boys... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/20/korean-climbers-score-8000-meter-hat-trick-in-nepal.htm Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:19:39 +0000 2009-06-20T12:19:39Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/17/apa-sherpa-reaches-mt-everest-summit-for-record-19th-time.htm After all the bad news out of China in the past couple weeks, here is a bit of good news from the top of the world. Last Wednesday, June 10, Apa... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/17/apa-sherpa-reaches-mt-everest-summit-for-record-19th-time.htm Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:18:22 +0000 2009-06-17T11:18:22Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/14/search-for-micah-dash-over-rescue-team-returning-to-us.htm Extremely dangerous avalanche conditions coupled with continuing bad weather and daily rockfall led a rescue team of Chinese and American climbers to call off the search for Micah Dash, the... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/14/search-for-micah-dash-over-rescue-team-returning-to-us.htm Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:19:20 +0000 2009-06-14T11:19:20Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/11/micah-dash-search-suspended-rescuers-descend-mt-edgar.htm The search for Micah Dash, the missing American climber from Boulder, Colorado, was suspended today because of bad weather on Mount Edgar in western China. The rescue team felt that... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/11/micah-dash-search-suspended-rescuers-descend-mt-edgar.htm Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:43:29 +0000 2009-06-11T14:43:29Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/10/search-continues-for-micah-dash-on-mount-edgar.htm Extremely bad weather has hampered the search efforts for Micah Dash, the last American climber still missing on Mount Edgar, and, reports Xinhua News Agency in China, the multi-national search... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/10/search-continues-for-micah-dash-on-mount-edgar.htm Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:40:22 +0000 2009-06-10T11:40:22Z http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/09/video-of-climber-search-and-rescue-in-china.htm Here’s a video, made last Saturday and released by the Associated Press, of the Chinese search for the three missing Americans—Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson—on Mount Edgar. It... http://climbing.about.com/b/2009/06/09/video-of-climber-search-and-rescue-in-china.htm Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:11:29 +0000 2009-06-09T10:11:29Z