How many pieces do you need for a traditional anchor? Most climbers don't have time to blink before they answer this question. But if you answered "three," you're wrong. An anchor takes as many pieces ...

Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods for rock bolts and anchors are pivotal in ensuring the stability and longevity of underground structures, mines, tunnels, and slopes. This branch of research ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposal by federal agencies that could have severely limited the use of fixed climbing anchors in wilderness areas is now dead, following adoption of ...

Rock climbers who have expressed concern over proposed changes to federal regulations affecting climbing safety equipment in wilderness areas got some powerful allies this week when more than a dozen ...

It’s a bright and early Monday morning on Mount Lemmon. The landscape of steep slopes is full of boulders, shrubs and tall saguaro cactuses. Gunshots from the shooting range nearby can be heard ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Though the $5.4 million rock blasting project in the Tongass Narrows has ended, it leaves in its wake a more navigable waterway and a memento. As crews dredged rubble from the ...