For the past week, instead of actually relaxing in the evenings, I have been ascending the gnarled brute of a mountain in Cairn. The onerous journey has left the toes of its alpinist star Aava ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown, sending the measure to President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a ...

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 ...

Climbing is all the rage these days. Scaling seemingly insurmountable heights has been a core instinct of gamers everywhere for years, whether intentional in the likes of Assassin's Creed, Grow Home, ...

If you look up popular quotes about life, a common theme crops up — ‘it’s the journey, not the destination’, or ‘practice makes perfect’, and so it goes. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that, though ...

Cairn, a new rock-climbing sim by Montpellier studio The Game Bakers, is a video game about what it’s like to have a body. Playing it, you feel the protagonist Aava’s muscles tremble and her breath ...

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 ...

Before he was the subject of a hit Netflix documentary, Alex Honnold was the focus of a National Geographic special, “Free Solo.” It is currently available on Disney Plus, which is the official home ...

And part of his preparation means having the proper music to back his epic climbs—including his Jan. 24 (Jan. 25 local time) climb up Taipei 101, the 11th tallest building in the world standing at ...

Netflix’s “Skycraper Live” went off without a hitch, as professional rock climber Alex Honnold successfully climbed one of the tallest buildings in the world without ropes or a safety net. He ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- American rock climber Alex Honnold ascended the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment. Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as he reached the ...

Climber Alex Honnold successfully completed a “free solo” ascent up the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan on Saturday, doing so without a rope or harness in an event that streamed live on Netflix for a ...