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.

“I started doing harder and harder fourteener routes, got to the point where I needed to start roping up, and found rock climbing,” said Umstead, who grew up in Kentucky. “Having competed at ...

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 ...