Question: I’m a 16-year-old student and I’m interested in getting into mountaineering. I wanted to take a trip to learn the basics and to do some climbing in the process. Adventure Adviser: Well, Dean ...

For longtime hikers and backpackers, the desire to tackle bigger, more technical mountains tends to come around eventually. Spend enough time staring at glaciated peaks from camp, and sooner or later, ...

There are a multitude of climbing opportunities within easy reach of the South Sound. From the top of 14,411-foot Mount Rainier, to the seemingly countless peaks of the North Cascades and Olympics, ...

The Ram’s Head Device has been the Army’s mountaineering badge for decades. But, not all soldiers who earned it were allowed to wear it. After months of rumors, soldiers finally received their answer ...

The Ram’s Head lives, but it’s a little different. The Army revealed the new design for its forthcoming Mariner and Mountaineer Badges, the latter of which will retain the look of a Ram’s Head that ...

In 1936, Harvard students climbed what was, at the time, “the highest summit attained by man.” Four men from the Harvard Mountaineering Club, founded in 1924, joined forces with British mountaineers ...

JERICHO, Vt. – A U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician was recently selected as the honor graduate of the Basic Military Mountaineering Course at the Ethan Allen Training Site in Jericho, ...