1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (160+ words) Do you like climbing " whether a tree, a giant boulder or an indoor climbing wall? Why or why not? Have you ever climbed something really tall? What would be too high for you? How about a 1,667-foot-tall skyscraper " without a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (455+ words) 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 top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower about 90 minutes after he…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (484+ words) American rock climber Alex Honnold said he was paid an "embarrassing" amount for free climbing one of the world's tallest skyscrapers without ropes or protective gear. The 40-year-old daredevil scaled the massive 1,667-foot Taipei 101 in Taiwan in just over 90 minutes…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (899+ words) Alex Honnold, the rock climber who famously scaled Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes, will try his hand at a 1,667-foot skyscraper in a spectacle aired live on Netflix. Honnold will "free solo" Taipei 101, the tallest building in Taiwan and among…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (309+ words) In his assured second novel, "Crux," Gabriel Tallent asserts that friendships are as intricate and significant as any relationship bound by blood or romance. If "Crux" were an episode of "Friends," it would be called "The One Where They Go…...

11+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (286+ words) A British man has died after falling from a viewing platform at a famed Roman aqueduct in the Spanish city of Segovia. Emergency services were called after the 63-year-old man suffered a fall at around 1 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) on Saturday,…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (812+ words) In 1944, the 51-year-old Nan Shepherd, coming off an unhappy love affair, turned her attention to the manuscript that would become "The Living Mountain," a book about Scotland's Cairngorm mountain range, which she had been climbing since childhood. Shepherd was already…...