Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...

Manual limb selection lets you choose the exact hand or foot you want to move. Source: Shacknews At the most basic level, climbing is tied to the X button on Xbox, Square button on PlayStation, or ...

Alex Honnold said he needed to know if scaling the Taipei 101 was even possible before he did Netflix’s Skyscraper Live special, so he turned to a more traditional way of climbing to find out. Honnold ...

In Cairn you will come to a cave full of glowing crystals made of Piton-proof hard stone that has a ledge high above the cave and a seemingly impossible route to get to it. Above is a great prize, the ...

The gameplay of new indie game Cairn may entail conquering a mountain that's claimed many lives, but the game itself is happy with winning hearts and minds. In Cairn, you make your way up a mountain ...

Our Tips and Tricks for Cairn will cover the often hidden and complicated mechanics of climbing in Cairn. Cairn is a difficult game that offers multiple ways to solve a problem. When you are on the ...

Move over, figure skating and ice hockey: There’s a new Olympic sport taking to the slopes of Italy. Ski mountaineering, or “skimo,” is the first entirely new sport at the Winter Olympics since 2002.

As I inched up a frozen waterfall on the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park, kicking my crampon spikes into milky columns of ice and swinging an ax above my head, I heard just one thing over my ...

Cairn is an extremely good and beautifully made climbing game that is exceptional at executing the one specific thing it's trying to recreate. If you go in knowing that and are on board with it, then ...

I found myself about to ice climb for the first time on a frigid morning in 2022 at Kushog Lake in Southern Ontario. The conditions weren’t optimal: The thermometer read -24 C, making the ice brittle ...

A punishing, beautiful survival game that turns mountaineering into an intimate test of endurance, fixation and emotional resolve – you’ll be in tears by the end Mountaineers and climbers, especially ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Upon reaching the top of Taipei 101 — without ropes, harnesses or safety nets — free climber Alex Honnold waved ...