When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually ...

Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 tallest mountains, including Mount Everest. Spring is the most popular climbing season, when weather is favorable on those tall peaks. However, hundreds of ...

The climbers, Stefano Farronato and Alessandro Caputo, were attempting to scale the 6,887-metre Panbari mountain in western Nepal as part of a three-member team.

The youngest Briton to have reached the summit of Everest at the time of writing is Jake Meyer, who set the record in 2005 aged 21. For more information on Alex's Everest challenge or to donate to his ...

A helicopter attempting to evacuate tourists flipped over while trying to land on the world’s highest summit. Tropical cyclone Montha has brought heavy snowfall into the region, and officials have ...

Few Seattle University alums have reached the heights that Jim Whittaker did—literally. On May 1, 1963, Whittaker, ’52, along with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, became the first American to summit Mount ...

The ski run starts atop Everest, some 29,000 feet above sea level and in the death zone, where people can’t survive for long.

Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and a former record-holder in Alaska’s Mount Marathon race, did ...

Recent allegations of phony summit images on the world’s highest peaks ignited a debate in the mountaineering community. We ...

Mountaineer Jim Morrison hopped left on his skis, sending trickles of snow down a sheer gully on the North Face of Mount ...

When Netflix recently announced that Alex Honnold would attempt to free solo a skyscraper live in Taiwan, it felt like the ...

Earlier this month, skier and mountaineer Jim Morrison became the first person to ski down Mt. Everest's foreboding Hornbein Couloir.