JORDAN — While the biggest draw to the Jordan Fall Festival on Sunday may be to watch people climb up — or slip down — a greased pole, thousands of people converged at the festival grounds to take in ...

October is shaping up to be a month full of excitement in Ephraim, with two big community celebrations on the calendar: ...

A competitor tries to grab a flag as he falls off the "gostra", a wooden pole covered in lard, during the main competition, part of the celebrations on the religious feast day of St Julian, patron of ...

We challenged a group of accomplished pole dancers to keep up with trained rock climbers for a day on an indoor climbing wall. Though both disciplines call for intense focus and muscle control, how ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Despite the police department's preemptive plan, an application of Crisco was not enough to keep Eagles fans from climbing light poles to celebrate Sunday's big win over the Minnesota ...

SALT LAKE CITY — High school and college graduations are going on all over Utah this week. However, there was a very different commencement ceremony involving students who had recently completed the ...

Last year in August, one morning, a man climbed a utility pole in Taguig City. According to reports, the man had been on the pole since shortly after 8 a.m. The power supply was shut off in parts of ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Despite the police department's preemptive plan, an application of Crisco was not enough to keep fans from climbing light poles. Video captured one fan climbing a pole in Center City.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland has a lot of Italian festivals — but only one greasy pole climb. Just two weeks after the oldest Italian festival in Cleveland took place in Little Italy, the oldest West ...

ST JULIAN'S, Malta (Reuters) - For more than a century, locals in the small Maltese town of St Julian's have celebrated their patron saint by running up a steeply angled log, smeared with lard, ...