I’m hanging onto the side of a towering 200-foot cliff wall and a professional climbing instructor is urging me to do something that every muscle in my body is resisting – let go. It is a warm April ...

William Moss, 18, recently made the first free ascent of Best Things in Life Are Free (BT) at the Gunks's Twilight Zone Buttress. Moss graded the 100-foot pitch 5.14d R, making it one of the world's ...

"They were huge roofs and steep faces all over the Shawangunks region," he says today, adding that many "are pretty hair-raising, and so out there and backcountry, and scary." He had been finding ...

Soloing in the Gunks was nothing new in the 1980s. Climbers had been at it for decades, usually on routes well within their capabilities and without true risk involved. Gunks rock is solid stuff and ...

Perched on top of the Shawangunk Ridge, the elegant Mohonk Mountain House (from $440 including three meals) places you steps away from 85 miles of trails, classic rock climbs, and the sandy beach of ...

It proudly bears the title of busiest rock climbing destination in the United States. It is home to one of the last great mountain-house hotels in North America. The region is known for possessing a ...

SURROUNDED by three teenage girls and their fathers, a rock climbing guide calls out the ABC’s of the sport: A is for anchor; B is for buckle; C, carabiner; and so on, until she gets to G and H. “God ...