Mitch Thompson climbs volcanoes like Spiderman scales a burning skyscraper to rescue a damsel in distress. He does not take the time to soak in his surroundings. He plows toward the summit as fast as possible, then moves on to his next challenge.

Sixty-five-hundred people can't be wrong, can they? That's how many daring climbers tackle Mount Hood — Oregon's signature slope — each year.

If someone says Smith Rock and you think of a giant boulder at the side of the road, think again.

There are more than 200 rock climbing routes in the Callahan Mountains, 25 miles west of Roseburg.

Beginning this May on Alaska's Mount McKinley, otherwise known as Denali, the highest point in North American at 20,320 feet, I will begin a quest to climb the seven summits, the highest peak on each continent.

Famed big-wall climber and photographer Mike Libecki plans to reveal the harsh faces of Antarctica and Greenland in Ashland tonight.

As Heather Alimossy stretches her legs toward the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro next month, as she exclaims over the view, her thoughts will no doubt turn toward those stricken with Huntington's Disease who can no longer walk or talk.