In May of 1963, National Geographic photographer and correspondent Barry C. Bishop was part of the first American team to ...

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On 17 May Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and David Göttler reached the summit of Nuptse (7861m) via the long and difficult North Ridge Scott route. A beautiful and testing climb, far removed from the nearby ...

Andrzej Bargiel's sponsor, Red Bull, has posted a 31-minute video of the Polish mountaineer's ski descent of Everest some weeks ago. The new footage details every section, including the last slow ...

Hans Kammerlander is not impressed with Andrzej Bargiel's recent Everest ski descent. The South Tyrolean, himself a high-altitude ski pioneer, described the Pole's recent descent as part of a show ...

On October 15 American mountaineer Jim Morrison, 50, became the first person to ski the North Face of Mount Everest (29,032 feet) via its most challenging and elusive line, a linkup of the Hornbein ...

In the autumn of 1988, a team of Slovak climbers set out to tackle Everest’s Southwest Face, a steep and unforgiving route first climbed by Chris Bonington’s British team in 1975. That earlier climb ...

Two climbers from Romania and India have died on Nepal's Mount Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak, officials said Monday, taking the number of fatalities this season to at least nine. Romania's ...

Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers each spring - Copyright AFP PRAKASH MATHEMA Nepal is home to eight of the ...