In a landmark achievement for academic mountaineering in Nepal, students and instructors from Nepal Mountain Academy (NMA) ...

A long line of climbers has been marching toward the top Everest since early today. More than 70 climbers may summit by the ...

On Friday, May 16, word circulated that a climber from India named Subrata Gosh had died on Mount Everest after descending from the summit to the Hillary Step at an elevation of 28,839 feet. Outside ...

KATHMANDU — An Indian climber and another from the Philippines became the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the ...

While 66% of women who attempt the world's tallest mountain succeed, against 75% for men, their fatality rate is lower: A ...

These training opportunities and expeditions — from King George Island in Antarctica to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic, and from the Andes to the eastern Tibetan Plateau — are ...

Maverick subeditor Ian Wolstenholme trekked across Nepal’s Himalayas with a film camera in hand. Decades later, he digitised ...

Junko Tabei rose from obscurity in rural Japan to be a global icon of courage and adventure — especially for women who have ...

Introduction The Manaslu Circuit Trek is a thrilling adventure in the remote region of the northern Himalayas. The trek takes you around the base of Mount Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest mountain.

Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country settled between China and India, is regularly hailed as the extreme goal for t ...

Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...

Next week, I set off on one of the biggest adventures of my life so far – trekking to Everest Base Camp. Over 11 days, I’ll ...