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Free news: The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office (HRCSO) has suspended recovery operations for a climber from Bend who was last seen attempting to summit Mount Hood.

Life changed in July of 2010 for mountain climber Isabel Suppé. While climbing a wall of ice high in the Bolivian Andes, her climbing partner slipped and fell, causing both of them to fall 1,100 feet.

Notes on baseball, softball and mountain climbing

When Mark Hudon was 18, he visited Yosemite National Park from his home state of New Hampshire. As a young climber, Hudon’s trip out west was something that changed his life, and the granite monolith called El Capitan was the catalyst.