Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor Rob Johnson explains the essentials of choosing and using your first ice axe and crampons for winter mountaineering. Ever year as winter rolls around, you ...

It’s time to sharpen those ice tools, throw on some crampons and buckle up that helmet. Ice climbing season is on, and this ...

“One of the best sounds in alpine mountaineering is the sound of crampons and ice axes on good firm snow,” he says. The Sandy Glacier flows down a steep bowl about two-thirds of the way up ...

Ice formations tend to be steep, jagged and brittle and climbers use ice axes and crampons - boots with metal spikes attached to the sole - to carefully pierce the ice and haul themselves up.

But it and other rare plants are at risk from winter mountain climbers. Ice axes and crampons can damage the ground unless the terrain is properly frozen. Officials hope the new sensors will tell ...