Arborists work in a world of extreme heights and life-or-death consequences every day. I went behind the scenes of a professional tree-climbing competition to meet the people who maintain the canopies ...

Climbing stairs has been increasingly ingrained in exercise guidance, but it can sometimes be hard to find a place to do it. Many people who do it regularly say office ...

The Suislide Knot is a term used to describe a dangerous situation where a Blake’s Hitch is tied incorrectly, creating a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A professional climber from Toms River, New Jersey, captured the moment he saved a cat stranded in a tall tree on Sunday, March 1.

A rescue call near the UC Santa Cruz campus escalated into a major emergency on Saturday after two people became trapped high in a redwood tree. One man fell an estimated 80 feet while firefighters ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

Imagine living sometime around the early 1600s. You're standing on the deck of a wooden ship. The wind's biting, the sky's endless. And your captain's yelling, "Drop the log!" Back then, before sonar ...

Arborists depend on several knots for safe climbing and rigging. The most widely used arborist knots include bowline knots, figure eight knots, distel knots, and Prusik knots. Per the National ...

WASHINGTON — American climber Balin Miller died Wednesday at the age of 23 while attempting to scale El Capitan, the iconic mountain in Yosemite National Park. Miller's mother, Jeanine Moorman, ...