The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot ...

The 2015 movie Everest had several big-name actors added to its ensemble cast, all of them based on the real-life climbers of ...

After trekking the equivalent of three or four marathons in a little more than a week near Mt. Everest, Brian O'Malley is ...

Save first, and then spend the leftovers. If you spend first, then try to save what you can, you’ll never save enough. I have ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

The instrument was developed by a team at the Mount Washington Observatory, and spent a year on Mount Everest before being ...

Carstensz Pyramid, the lowest and least-known of the Seven Summits, attracts an increasing number of those hoping to climb ...

A team of Sherpas has fixed ropes as far as Camp 2 on Annapurna. On Saturday, they begin work on the treacherous section ...

Belgium's Simon Lorenzi has successfully repeated 'Return of the Sleepwalker' in Red Rocks, USA. This marks the 28-year-old climber's fourth 9A boulder problem. Swiss alpinists Filippo Sala, Roger ...

Scott Peterson, the man convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son, was injured after an interaction with another person at Mule Creek State Prison, officials said Tuesday.

For some strange reason, I love reading true adventure books, namely books about mountain climbing or deep-sea diving ...