Orson Welles got his name not after the famous actor and director, but from a rescue operation out of an actual well.

Out & Back with Alison Mariella Désir is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...

Dame Cathedral to the Olympic Games, from industrial chimneys to nuclear power plants, rope access technicians are in demand everywhere. Meet the professionals in the thick of it.

Police in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., released body camera footage of multiple officers and civilians working together to successfully pull a struggling horse out of an icy pond on Feb. 24.

Here’s the moment when I first suspected I might fall in love: I was told I shouldn’t start lifting without an expert’s advice. Unless I knew how to maintain the right form, it would be easy for me to ...

While I recommended full-body weight and resistance training, pay particular attention to leg exercises and core ... glacier travel, and rope work. Consider joining a mountaineering course to ...

While star pacer Swayzee (Rock N Roll Heaven) narrowly missed his chance of aiming at the lucrative $1million Carnival of Cups Bonus he is still in contention to win a $500,000 harness racing ...

No certifications are required to boulder (climbing without rope) or top-rope (climbing with a rope that runs from your harness to the top of the wall and back down to the belayer). Climbers should ...

In the double stance phase, the position of the CoP quickly shifts from one leg to the other ... from 1,450 to 1,800 mm and weights of up to 100 kg. The proposed harness contained a rope ascender to ...