Robot vacuums have long struggled with multi-floor dwellings, but new stair-climbing models could offer a solution.

Abstract: There is an acute shortage of human coconut tree climbers to harvest coconuts in India and other developing countries. The consequential diminished availability of skilled tree climbers, to ...

There’s a powerful antidote to this cardio malaise: the simple but effective StairMaster or elliptical workout. Who would have guessed that the seemingly straightforward act of simply raising and ...

The StairMaster operates similarly to a treadmill—with the major difference being that the belt is not flat, and you continuously climb stairs. But what benefits does training on the electric gym ...

In a ruling issued on December 8, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s conviction and life sentence of accomplished California climber and guidebook author Charles ...

Here’s how the two popular cardio machines stack up. “Both are really good for building aerobic capacity. And they’re both fairly equal from a lower-body fitness standpoint,” says Shawn Arent, Ph.D., ...

The climber and ski mountaineer, who died on a peak in Nepal, was driven to seek challenges that stretched her endurance to the limit. Hilaree Nelson was one of the world’s most accomplished ski ...

American climber Sasha DiGiulian has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan's longest route — a journey she said ended up being the "most formative and challenging climb" of her career. "When ...