Aconcagua Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western and southern hemispheres and the tallest peak outside of Asia, rises to 22,841 feet (6,961 meters). As ...

Influencers with minimal climbing experience are posing as heroes on 8,000-meter peaks, turning summit selfies into cash and ...

Climbing Mount Everest via the south side ... time recently when the sun rises as well and increases the hazard of torrential slides and falling rock.The last Everest climbing includes exploring the ...

A long-distance trek through Nepal’s Everest region offers lessons in Sherpa culture, rural mountain living, and humility.

In a time when climbers often choose their own ambitions over assisting others, I recall the heroic efforts of Simone Mora in ...

North Carolina woman describes terrifying experience of surviving a landslide during Helene ...

The foot, boot and sock thought to belong to Sandy Irvine, who disappeared during George Mallory's 1924 expedition to climb ...

was one of the leaders of a team that discovered a boot and sock on Mount Everest.Credit...Erich Roepke/National Geographic Some questions were answered when Conrad Anker, an American rock climber ...

George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition. Mallory’s body was found on the mountain in 1999. But no trace of Irvine’s body had been found, prompting debate in the climbing community about ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa’s ears are still tinged black from wind chill, an occupational hazard of climbing to heights where humans ...

A climber who was part of the first successful Irish Everest expedition in 1993 has died in a mountaineering accident in New ...