A new cohort of titles, including this year’s ‘Cairn’, lets players taste the ecstasy — and heart-pounding terror — of alpinism ...

Cairn gives you a chance to see how you'd fare at climbing Mount Everest on Steam Deck, and in all honesty, I'm not very good at climbing in this indie game.

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs ...

Around the world, there are mountains that are completely out of bounds for adventurers. This is not because they are too ...

I’ll admit it: I’ve been putting off this hike for months. I blamed the warm weather and told myself I didn’t have time for a six-hour trek, but the truth is that I knew El Cajon Mountain was going to ...

On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ...

Only the top multisport athletes will head to the Rocky Mountains this spring to compete for the title—and now you can help ...

Climbing a mountain in a video game can feel great when the gameplay is fine-tuned to a T. This is downright necessary in titles where this is the sole gameplay loop, which is understandable. If ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...