Japan is famous for its beautiful mountain landscapes as well as for the challenges it offers to avid mountaineers. However, these mountains can get so treacherous that Japan actually records one of ...

A pair of Japanese data scientists have published a paper exploring whether artificial intelligence (AI) can predict mountaineering accidents. The paper's senior author, Dr. Yusuke Fukazawa, claims ...

A 52-year-old woman died and her climbing partner was seriously injured after they fell approximately 1,000 feet off of a mountain in Denali National Park in Alaska, officials said. The incident ...

The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation recently published a paper about how Norway successfully dealt with an alarming wave of autobelay accidents. The article is republished with ...

To address the high number of mountaineering accidents in Japan, researchers developed a deep learning model that uses contextual information such as time of day, environmental conditions, and ...

Promising young alpinist Balin Miller fell to his death during a climbing accident on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Oct. 1, his family said on social media. Screenshot of video on ...

A notable Alaskan climber died following an accident at Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan in California, his company and family confirmed. Balin Miller, 23, died during a "climbing accident" on ...

To address the high number of mountaineering accidents in Japan, researchers developed a deep learning model that uses contextual information such as time of day, environmental conditions, and ...