IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted ...

Iranian double-amputee mountaineer Sajjad Salarvand, who is suffering from a double leg amputation, has succeeded in climbing ...

Image Nepali Sherpas at the Everest base camp ... During a trial run last year on Mount Ama Dablam, a Himalayan peak where drones were used to remove 1,300 pounds of waste, Dawa Jangbu Sherpa ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped ... Everest, still reaching higher into the sky, embodies not just a peak of stone but a symbol of the relentless forces shaping our planet.

More than a thousand aged care residents have walked almost 20,000 kilometres over four weeks – with some having to take to ...

He climbed the 8,848-meter summit of Mount Everest when he was 70, 75 and 80. When he was 86, he embarked on an expedition to Aconcagua mountain in Argentina, South America’s highest peak.

Anil Kumar Kannangal, a retired IAF personnel and a banker from Thiruvananthapuram talks about his tryst with mountaineering ...

Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range. We look into its climbing history, spotlighting the pioneers who ...