Fifty feet above the ground, clinging to a sheer wall of gabbro 80 feet high, Duluth’s Adam Dailey begins to disappear. He’s doing a training climb on mixed rock and ice at Casket Quarry, a popular ...

Mixed climbing combines the techniques of ice climbing and rock climbing, allowing for travel over all types of terrain. In ”Mixed Climbing,” author Sean Isaac describes a new movement in sport ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Arvada’s Ian Umstead has competed internationally in two sports, first in Europe as a young cyclist aspiring to race professionally, now as an elite ice ...

DENVER (KDVR) — For the first time since 2019, the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup is returning to the U.S. in 2025 with a stop in Colorado next month. The event is part of the 2024-2025 UIAA Ice Climbing ...

Catalina Shirley, 22, is looking forward to a competitive adventure in February that involves twisting herself into a pretzel, then climbing horizontally over free-hanging air, underneath a cube, ...

Catalina Shirley competes in the 2019 Ice Climbing World Tour in Denver. Credit: Levi Harrell / UIAA There’s forty feet of ice towering above Catalina Shirley. The Lafayette resident is moments away ...

Ever since Golden resident Jessica Perez saw ice climbers in action in Denver six years ago, she knew she wanted to try the sport for herself. “I was pretty inspired and kind of blown away by it,” ...