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 ...

SOUFRIERE, ST. LUCIA, West Indies — The Pitons dominate the southwest coast of St. Lucia. The twin volcanic spires are the iconic image of St. Lucia, the green hulking peaks rising from the sea side ...

There’s a St Lucia beyond the Pitons, those twin volcanic plugs that have graced a thousand guidebooks. In the island’s jungle-knitted north, the Eden-like Trouya Pointe ticks up from the Caribbean ...

SOUFRIERE, ST. LUCIA, West Indies -- The twin volcanic spires of the Pitons are the iconic image of St. Lucia, the green hulking peaks rising from the sea in dramatic fashion on the island's southwest ...