Red Rock Canyon National Monument is unique in North American climbing. No other area offers such extensive climbing in a beautiful desert environment while at the same time enjoying the ease of access and amenities of a nearby metropolitan area. Only 20 miles from downtown Las Vegas, Red Rock rises in a 3000-foot wall of red, pink, and cream colored Aztec sandstone. The cliffs form a north-south trending barrier over ten miles long and are cut perpendicularly with many major canyons and innumerable smaller ones. When you are climbing, the only sign of human impact is an occasional glimpse of the narrow access road, so while you are close to civilization, it feels like you are deep in a desert wilderness area.

The Cordillera Blanca is a magical range of mountains rising between the Pacific Ocean and the Amazon Jungle. They host deep forested valleys and steep fluted faces of snow, ice and rock. The peak climbing season is between the months of June and August when climbers from around the world come to test themselves on the high altitude alpine peaks. A mountaineers dream...

El Potrero Chico

El Potrero Chico
El Potrero Chico is the premier sport climbing location in Mexico. Just outside of Monterey , in the state of Nuevo Leon near the East coast of Mexico, El Potrero is the most reliable winter climbing area in the North American Continent. The climbing consist of single pitch cragging to 25 pitch bolted sport climbing odysseys on perfect lime stone. The Potrero is a sleepy, laid back climbing location with rustic accommodations and camping. More information on El Potrero can be found at the websites of two of the local restrurant/camping facilities. Homeros is one of the first families to offer camping and Posadas is one of the newer families to offer camping and services.

More about Carpathians

The Carpathians are rich in minerals and timber. The region's cold winters and hot summers make it a year-round resort. Although the Carpathians are a barrier to the southward movement of cold air masses, numerous low passes facilitate overland travel between the densely populated areas that flank the system. The Carpathians themselves are sparsely populated, with the greatest number of people found in the larger agricultural valleys to the south.

Carpathians or Carpathian Mountains

Carpathians or Carpathian Mountains, (Czech, Pol., and Ukr. Karpaty, Rom. Carpatii, major mountain system of central and E Europe, extending c.930 mi (1,500 KM) Along the north and east sides of the Danubian plain. The geologically young mountains, which are part of the main European hain, link the Alps with the Balkans.
The Carpathians begin in SW Slovakia and extend northeasterly along the Czech-Slovak border to Poland. There the Northern Carpathians, comprising the Beskids and the Tatra, run east along the Polish border, then SE through W Ukraine; in Romania they are continued by the Transylvanian Alps (or Southern Carpathians), which extend SW to the Danube River. The highest peaks are Gerlachovský (8,737 ft/2,663 m) in the Tatra and Moldoveanu in the Transylvanian Alps.