The Department of Tourism has started issuing permits for the spring mountaineering season. So far, 58 climbers-40 men and 18 women-from eight mountaineering groups have obtained permission to scale ...

NAGANO: Yoshitomi Okura, a 74-year-old mountaineer from Iida, Nagano Prefecture, advocates "eco mountaineering," a way of ...

Green has broken 26 bones in his body, most of them from ice climbing. He picked up the sport when he was 16 years old, and ...

Tyler Andrews will try to climb Everest from the South Side, without oxygen, in under 20 hours. This would be the fastest ...

JAIPUR: The Thar in Rajasthan stretches duney and dry. Summer temperatures climb to a blistering 49°C. But the desert is ...

A Ridgway resident traded his mountaineering career to become a conflict journalist. His film on Ukraine premiered last month ...

On June 03, 2025, it will be 75 years since the first successful ascent of Annapurna – the first 8000er ever to be summited ...

Chantal Mauduit's remarkable life was defined by mountaineering, her poetic spirit, and her tragic end on Dhaulagiri I at age ...

A squad of climbers, steeled by ascents in the Tetons, made a historic Himalayan climb in 1963, even after the mountain claimed one of their own.

Summer temperatures climb to a blistering 49°C. But the desert is changing. A fruit synonymous with the Himalayas has found an unexpected home in this sea of sand and scorching sun. Apples - red ...

Eight people died on Mount Everest in May 1996, but the film only highlights five of the deceased: guides Andrew Harris ...