Smithsonian Magazine

Learn to Ice Climb at Alaska’s Most Extreme Community Festival

For more than 40 years, Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Corey Buhay Alaska’s hardiest residents have gathered around the frozen ...
Outside

Robbi Was Magic: Beloved Ranger Dies in 1,000-Foot Fall in Alaska

The first time I met Robbi Mecus, she told me she liked my skirt. I was 25, working as an interior caretaker in the Adirondack High Peaks, my first job with the New York Department of Environmental ...
Alaska Public Media

Well-known New York forest ranger dies in Denali ice climbing accident

Robbi Mecus was a New York State Forest Ranger working in the Adirondacks. (Emily Russell) A well-known and beloved Adirondack forest ranger died while ice climbing in Alaska on Thursday. Robbi Mecus, ...
WZZM

West Michigan native critically injured after falling 1,000 feet while ice climbing at Denali National Park

DENALI PARK, Alaska — A Grandville woman is in a hospital in Alaska after falling 1,000 feet while ice climbing at Denali National Park. Melissa Orzechowski, 30, is a graduate of Grandville High ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Craziest thing you can do’: Why are so many adventure seekers warming up to ice climbing?

Oh, thank God, my whole body exclaimed. After a few swings, the razor-sharp pick I clutched lodged firmly into a cascading frozen waterfall. Shards of ice exploded from the point of contact onto my ...