Mission: Climb Looking Glass Rock. Location: Pisgah National Forest. Trail: Strenuous, difficult in parts. Elevation gain: 1,600 feet over 3.1 miles. Requirements ...

Two rock climbers stranded on a cliff face overnight in freezing temperatures were rescued Dec. 22 in Pisgah National Forest. The rescue, on the Sunwall area of Looking Glass Rock was a collaboration ...

A person fell 100 feet and got stuck on a popular rock face in Western North Carolina on Thursday, a local rescue group said. Transylvania County Rescue Squad and emergency medical services responded ...

Last Dec. 17, 85-year-old Steve Longenecker, legendary bird-man, snake-man, and Western North Carolina rock climbing pioneer, invited my husband, Graham Ramsey, and me, to join him and his ebullient ...

A rock climber was injured but alive after falling off popular Looking Glass Rock in the North Carolina mountains on Saturday, according to Facebook posts by the Transylvania County Rescue Squad. The ...