A new cohort of titles, including this year’s ‘Cairn’, lets players taste the ecstasy — and heart-pounding terror — of alpinism ...

New mountain-climbing indie game Cairn celebrates its launch success, offering a more atmospheric, personal twist on the ...

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs ...

On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

Climbing a mountain in a video game can feel great when the gameplay is fine-tuned to a T. This is downright necessary in titles where this is the sole gameplay loop, which is understandable. If ...

"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Cairn is another change of tune for The Game Bakers, hitherto known for the nimble RPG snogging of Haven and the gimlet-eyed boss-rushing of Furi. Also the *squints* cephalopoddy eco activism of ...