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Parks Victoria and the Victorian Government in Australia have announced huge increases in areas banned to rock climbing. According to the Australian Climbing Association Victoria, the new legislation ...

When Simon Carter first laid his eyes on the “Totem Pole,” a 213-foot-tall monolith rising dramatically from the seas of eastern Tasmania, Australia, he was faced with a dilemma: “To climb or to ...

The Victorian government has confirmed no existing or proposed climbing bans across Victoria have been lifted, despite media reports and online discussions which suggested otherwise. The government ...

As a relatively new climber, I look up and think, There's no way I'm getting up this. The limestone arches overhead in swirls of gray and rusty brown. Look closely, though, and it is carved and pitted ...