Newser Video Shows Harrowing Rescue on Utah Peak Helicopter video out of Utah captures what officials call a stark lesson in how fast a mountain hike can go bad. The newly released footage shows rescuers plucking a badly injured woman…
On an overcast afternoon in Yosemite National Park, Brian and Ian Moran were standing at the base of Half Dome's infamous cables when they heard a scream. The scream came from a woman about three-quarters of the way down the…
FILE: A hiker nearing the peak of Half Dome in California’s Yosemite National Park. Cables are visible against the sheer cliff. On an overcast afternoon in Yosemite National Park, Brian and Ian Moran were standing at the base of Half…
Former Australian boxer Josh Frederiksen has died in a freak skydiving accident aged 36. The experienced skydiver was rushed to hospital after routine sports jump gone wrong at Skydive Ramblers Toogoolawah, northwest of Brisbane, on Wednesday. Frederiksen’s parachute opened and worked…
November 5, 2026 — 7:20pm A skydiver has died after an accident north-west of Brisbane. Professional boxer Josh Frederiksen, 36, suffered serious injuries after crash landing on a jump on Wednesday at Toogoolawah, roughly 80 kilometres from the Queensland capital. He was airlifted to the Royal…
Brisbane boxer and former Australian champion Josh Frederiksen has died aged 36 after a skydiving accident. Josh was an experienced skydiver who did a routine jump in Somerset on Wednesday. His parachute opened and operated normally before he encountered turbulence which…
About our reporting: Climbing reporter Holly Chen interviewed three free soloists and one additional speed climber in Boulder, researched fatalities in Accidents in North American Climbing, and pulled from her own experience free soloing the Second Flatiron to answer questions…
The Houlding family climbing El Capitan, Yosemite, USA. November 2024(Image: Leo Houlding / SWNS) An adventurous couple took their young kids on the world's most extreme family holiday — including camping on a mountain face. Leo Houlding, 46 and his wife Jess, 47, set…
This morning we got the chance to sleep in a little bit at the Hermit’s Rest campsite. We figured we would stick around and eat breakfast with Slow Squeeze, Kate, Gorf, and Slash before we had to get going. I…
Gripped Climbing Magazine Sleepwalker V15/16 (8C/+) in Red Rock, Nevada has received a lot of action recently. It has been recently been sent by Dayan Akhtar from Great Britain, Yuta Imaizumi from Japan, Nikolay Rusev from Bulgaria, and Raffael Gruber from Austria.
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