Victor Asenov battled sleeplessness and exhaustion for nearly two full days and covered the vertical gain equivalent of Mt. Everest.

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

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

■Support for famous mountaineers By providing weather forecasts, Inokuma supports Hirotaka Takeuchi, who became the first Japanese mountaineer to conquer all fourteen 8,000+ meter peaks with a ...

We reveal the highest mountains in Wales: storied peaks that rise high above a landscape rich in history and legend ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

M oments after breaking camp at Shira II, a clogged-up campsite on the western slopes of Kilimanjaro National Park, the ...

At just 13, Poorna Malavath became the youngest woman to summit Mount Everest in 2014. But that was only the beginning. Since ...

Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations ...

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 ...

A photographer, an airline pilot, a ship’s captain and others reveal where you’ll find the most spectacular, intriguing and ...