Rea Wehner said she felt anxious when she first heard of a fatal climbing fall at Red Rock. Hours later, Wehner heard from a mutual friend that the victim’s identity was that of her longtime friend.

Eighteen-year-old Yutong “Faye” Zhang, a University of Georgia freshman, fell while rock climbing in Cherokee Rock Village on Saturday Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

Tragedy in Norway, where last week the alpinists Bjørn-Eivind Årtun and Stein-Ivar Gravdal died while attempting a new ice climb up the Kjerag rock face ... for having brought Norwegian ice and mixed ...

Towards the end of 2014 the Slovak climbers Jozef Kristoffy and Martin Krasnansky spent a month climbing in Jordan with the aim of establishing a new difficult route in the Wadi Rum area. After ...