American couple Scott Lehmann and Shayna Unger successfully scaled the world's third-highest mountain this morning, becoming ...

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

A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of ...

As a young nation, India wanted to make its mark in international mountaineering with a successful Everest expedition. 60 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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