Sasha DiGiulian free-climbed the roughly 3,000-foot sheer granite wall in Yosemite National Park over the course of 23 days.

Between the sounds of crunching dirt and the clinking of carabiners, words of encouragement and laughter filled the air at McDowell Mountain last month. “Everyone is so supportive and wonderful, and ...

Looking up at the granite wall before me, I feel a mix of nerves and excitement as I tie my harness to the rope. Here, in the rugged wadis – an Arabic word for a deep valley carved into the mountain – ...

Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Sasha DiGiulian was destined to scale to great heights. “I went to my brother’s birthday party in the late ’90s at a climbing gym called Sportrock,” DiGiulian told ...

Jillian Stannard lay in a hospital bed, her skin peeling off after battling Stevens-Johnson syndrome and fibromyalgia. She could barely eat, and her body rejected the medication prescribed by doctors ...

In the months after she claimed a silver medal in sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, Brooke Raboutou returned to the place where she had once competed as a child prodigy: Arco, Italy. Just outside ...

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Since 1974 Outdoor Action—the University’s outdoor education program—has become a unique resource at Princeton for thousands of students. For many students, Outdoor Action is their first experience ...