Pounded dramatically and deafeningly into a crack on a vertical wall with a hammer, the steel spike called a piton was the first major safety advancement beyond the basic climbing rope in two thousand ...

St. Lucia‘s Gros Piton towers 2,619 feet above sea level. I climbed it twice in four days because I dig a bit of masochism mixed into my vacations. Jokes aside, I like to be challenged mentally and ...

According to Oprah Magazine, climbing the Piton's should be on your list of 'Five things to do before you die', and when Oprah talks, people generally listen. And it seems that the Americans do listen ...

If you read most big-city publications’ reviews of 2003’s “Pirates of the Caribbean,” you came away with the impression that Johnny Depp’s latest outing into bad dress and crappy grammar was the ...

But while the Petit Piton requires some serious climbing experience, conquering the slightly higher Gros Piton was, I had been assured, fairly straightforward, less of a climb, more of a trek. It ...

There's no shortage of countries laying claim to a natural masterpiece - and St Lucia is one of them. The 'Gros' and 'Petit' Pitons are a pair of volcanic peaks guarding the seafront on the south-west ...

Samet said one of his favorite things about writing the “Climbing Dictionary” was learning about word origins. One of his favorites to research was clean climbing (n, v: Piton-free, hammerless ...