Outdoors National Park Service kills controversial plan to ban climbing bolts in wilderness areas sought to allow local land managers to classify anchors as ‘permanent installations’ December 19, 2024
Local News Durango alpinist Kurt Blair presumed dead on New Zealand peak ‘He was living his dream,’ sister said of the 56-year-old climber December 3, 2024
Outdoors Experienced climber falls 800 feet to his death on ridge near Telluride 21-year-old man from Arizona is second person to die while hiking in Colorado this week July 26, 2024
Sports Lou Whittaker, among the most famous American mountaineers, has died at age 95 A search team led by Lou Whittaker, left, begins its ascent of Mount Rainier, in Wash., in 1981. Whittaker, a… March 30, 2024
Regional News Forest Service, Park Service rock climbing proposals worry both climbers and wilderness advocates guidance from federal land managers seems to require an inventory and review of all existing bolts and fixed anchors in… November 18, 2023
Local News Youth climbers ascend on Durango for first Gravity Lab competition A personal journey buoyed by camaraderie and cheering November 11, 2023
Local News Famed CO climber recounts rescue from peak near Silverton Roach, 79, has written guidebooks on climbing the state’s highest peaks August 15, 2023
Local News Durango youth lend helping hands to erosion project sets of stone stairs created and 90 cubic feet of rock reshaped at popular climbing spot August 15, 2023
Local News ‘Dirtbag with technology’: Luke Mehall on the counterculture within climbing Durango-based business owner reflects on his work as a climber, steward and writer October 29, 2022
Regional News Colorado climbers who summit buildings instead of mountains climbing, called buildering, has a rich history, especially on college campuses, dating back to the mid-1900s October 20, 2022
Local News Durango rock climber rises above MS diagnosis, bringing others with him Colorado Timberline Academy’s Ian Altman defies personal odds while living life to the extreme September 26, 2022
Local News Authorities identify Colorado man who fell to death in Chicago Basin Plata County Search and Rescue spent parts of Monday and Tuesday recovering victim’s body August 16, 2022
Sports Latinx Outdoor Initiative climbs Telluride Via Ferrata Telluride guide service joins Sheep Mountain Alliance and community partners in taking action toward equity in the outdoors July 28, 2022
Outdoors Alaska’s Denali is finally open to guided skiing, and you have a Colorado company to thank rules were written with the expectation that mountaineers would stay roped, walking uphill and down July 4, 2022
Local News Everest team sets a standard. Is the next generation watching? Full Circle Everest team included Denverite Thomas Moore, Lafayette teacher Eddie Taylor and Cortez leader Philip Henderson June 7, 2022
Local News Ouray Mountain Rescue Team wins national award Dramatic rescue of an injured climber on Mount Sneffels in July won the most votes May 6, 2022
Local News Cortez man leads historic Everest expedition Henderson heads first all-Black team to attempt the summit May 5, 2022
Local News Injured climber rescued at Ouray Ice Park hit in head by falling debris; technical rope rescue performed March 2, 2022
Local News Ouray Ice Park set to open in late December with full slate of events Climbing area seeks to bounce back after rockfall destroyed a bridge, water infrastructure in March November 16, 2021
Local News Missing Durango man found dead on Blanca Peak Fetzer was a nurse at Mercy Regional Medical Center and an experienced mountain climber September 28, 2021
The Journal Hiker rescued off El Diente Peak in Southwest Colorado Durango man, stranded on cliffs, spends night on mountain September 16, 2021
Sports Pikes Peak ‘bolt war’ pits iconic climbers against each other on America’s Mountain Longtime climbers are removing fixed protection installed by author of new guidebook August 10, 2021
Local News Volunteers blast away offensive graffiti from Durango climbing area X-rock, a popular crag, was hit with vulgar, racist images in June August 10, 2021
Local News Man rescued from Mount Sneffels after injury from fall Helicopter extraction took place at 13,700 feet August 3, 2021