On Friday, Alex Honnold—a world-renowned climber and one of Earth’s most fascinatingly fearless people—is scheduled to climb Taipei 101, the 101-story skyscraper that’s one of the world’s tallest ...
Some of these people had likely already watched Honnold scale the 3,000-foot rock wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan. But for many, the climber’s ascent up a man-made structure was likely an introduction ...
NEW YORK — Tom McGee began climbing stairs for exercise 20 years ago as part of an effort to stay off cigarettes. It hasn't always been easy: His climbs in hotel stairwells sometimes draw the ...
FILE - Participants make make their way up 86 flights of stairs during the 35th Annual Empire State Building Run-Up in New York, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File) NEW YORK — ...