The first woman to conquer the world's second-highest peak, K2, three times has also summited all 14 of the world's tallest ...

There's a particular kind of stillness in the idea of a summit so high that the air itself can't sustain human life. The ...

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In a crowded Kathmandu restaurant far from Nepal's famed icy peaks, Billi Bierling questions climbers about their ascents, ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the most accomplished mountain guides on Mount Everest is not ready to hang up his boots.

Thur 28 May 4.51pm • Northallerton born mountaineer, Alan Hinkes, marks 21 years since he reached the summit of Kangchenjunga - Hinkes's 14th and final mountain climb over 8000m. The family of a woman ...

From a dangerous, polluted mining town in the clouds to a remote Tibetan monastery, these are the highest altitudes in the ...

Tyler Andrews, 36, climbed the 29,032-foot peak in just 9 hours and 55 minutes, smashing the record of 10 hours and 56 ...

British mountaineer Kenton Cool has become the first non-Sherpa climber in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest 20 ...

India’s highest motorable roads are less about conventional sightseeing and more about entering landscapes that feel almost unreal. Most of these extreme-altitude routes lie in Ladakh, where the ...

Sweeney, along with Pádraig O’Hora and Éanna McGowan, endured a gruelling 55-day journey to reach the top of the world ...

There are roads in India that feel less like highways and more like survival stories carved into mountains. For a few short ...