Risk

Most risk scientists live risk-minimal lives, but Robert Charles Lee and his wife, Linda Cook, devoted their spare time to alpine and ice climbing. Now retired, Lee has written a book about risk, climbing, and partnership. In this excerpt he writes about the time he broke the cardinal rule of ice climbing: don't fall.

The 2021 Denali climbing season is underway, but two risky practices are concerning.

David Roberts, One of Climbing's Most Prolific Adventurers and Authors, Contemplates Risk Through the Lens of a Life of Climbing and a Cancer Diagnosis

Ryan Montoya endured two solo, unplanned nights in the Colorado backcountry in winter after a fall near the top of a Colorado 14er

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