Ryan Jennings found the easiest way to describe the ascent of Alaska’s Mount Johnson with his climbing partner, Kevin Cooper, last month. “We totally scored,” the 40-year-old Carbondale resident said.

As a relatively new climber, I look up and think, There's no way I'm getting up this. The limestone arches overhead in swirls of gray and rusty brown. Look closely, though, and it is carved and pitted ...

Researchers have explored how integrating machine and deep learning techniques can create a standardized system for evaluating rock climbing routes to provide a difficulty grading scale that promotes ...