Non-climbers, here’s your chance to discover the meaning behind these unusual climbing words from Free Solo, Alex Honnold, and the Alpinist.

This week on Running Wild, Bear Grylls and Cynthia Erivo are “defying gravity” as they traverse a variety of caves and other icy terrain. On top of the highest peaks in Wales, where Grylls trained for the British Special Forces, he teaches the singer-actress to rappel through the caves on her own with an oxygen [...]

Bear Grylls is teaching essential survival skills to the world’s biggest celebrities on the second season of Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (Sundays on National Geographic at 9/8c). This week, he’s meeting up with Benedict Cumberbatch on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Following the learning phase of their two-day adventure, which includes [...]

Beginner climbers have a few simple rules to learn, and one of the most important rules that survival expert Bear Grylls follows is the “rule of three.”  This means that you should have at least three points of contact with the rock face you’re climbing on, rather than relying on just one point of contact.  [...]

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is known for playing Dr. Strange in the Marvel Universe, but can he harness the mystic arts to help him rappel down the side of a cliff on Scotland’s Isle of Sky? Bear Grylls and Benedict Cumberbatch will explore the mountains on the Scottish coastline in this week’s episode of Running Wild [...]

On the premiere episode of Running Wild, Bear Grylls meets up with Bradley Cooper in the rugged canyons of Wyoming.

Tommy Caldwell continues to be one of the faces of rock climbing while also advocating for sustainability, and he isn’t slowing down.

Kristin Harila, 37, of Norway, is working to break the 2019 record by climbing 14 peaks in three months. The current record is held by Nurmal Purja, who completed the climbs in a little over six months, and he later made a documentary about it. This is Harila’s second attempt to break the record. Her first [...]

Scientists summited the Wei-Assipu-tepui mountain in Brazil and discovered a mysterious new animal species carrying its babies on its back. Researcher Philippe J.R. Kok published the discovery of the creature on May 25 in the Zoological Letters journal. Kok embarked on a biological escapade to the mystical “small sandstone table-top mountain” of Wei-Assipu-tepui to explore [...]

For this list, we found a number of actors, actresses, and musicians who actually put on the gear and scaled a rock face.