I’m clinging to a cable attached to a rock face. The trail ahead — actually, more of a three-foot-wide platform cut into the rock — mirrors the zig and zag of the canyon wall. I’m not a fan of heights ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’m clinging to a cable attached to a rock face. The trail ahead — actually, more of a 3-foot-wide platform cut into the rock — mirrors the zig and zag of ...

Last Monday Swiss climber Katherine Choong repeated 'La Fiesta de Los Metallos', the 200m 8b located in the Verdon Gorge, France. Choong first tried the route in April but was thwarted by the ...

A selection of rock climbs in the fantastic Verdon Gorge, France, an area which witnessed the entire evolution of sport climbing. The striking Verdon Gorge in France's Haute-Provence is the epitome of ...

By Georgeanne Brennan Deep in the wild reaches of Haute Provence in southern France stand three jewels within only a few ...

It was not exactly the boiled-coffee-on-a-camp-stove experience I'd imagined on a trip to the Grand Canyon. Not even the French one. But in France it seems "roughing it" translates to eating your ...

Verdon Gorge is one of the most spectacular climbing destinations in Europe. Huge limestone walls rise above the turquoise ...

WITH a bright blue flowing river, mountains and a huge canyon, you might think this spot is in America at first glance. But no, this beautiful place is not in Arizona, instead it’s in one of the ...

Je partage avec vous l’une de mes plus belles surprises de randonnée, dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. J'ai découvert, il y a peu, un endroit fascinant : les Cadières de Brandis. Boucle à faire dans ...

We stood on the edge of the precipice, stunned momentarily by a sign we had not anticipated when we arrived for our long-planned plunge into the Gorges du Verdon, the French version of the Grand ...