Even the most experienced mountaineers are stunned that Kilian Jornet could climb so many 14,000-foot peaks in such a short ...

WALLINGFORD — If when she was younger you asked Choate Rosemary Hall rising senior Emma Schwerin if she enjoyed hiking, she’d have told you she didn’t get the point. Why climb up a mountain just to ...

Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. We examine the routes on the difficult, rarely climbed Nepalese side of ...

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NHL legend Ilya Kovalchuk was famous on the ice, but his wife, Nicole, has built her own path in mountaineering.

An Indian Army expedition climbed Kangchenjunga from the Nepal side in May. Photo: RANVEER SINGH JAMWAL / INSTAGRAM Recent outrage in Sikkim over an Indian Army expedition climbing Kangchenjunga, the ...

Ultrarunner Olivia Amber recently spent four days running over California’s highest peaks to set the women’s fastest known ...

Twin brothers are climbing a mountain in the Himalayas, one dressed in modern clothing, the other in a replica outfit worn ...

While the data itself suggests a new peak designation nay be in order, the summit has not officially been declared a “new” ...

Tragedy struck on Makalu (8,485m / 27,840 feet), the world’s fifth-highest peak, when Alex Pancoe, 39, of Chicago, apparently suffered cardiac arrest at Camp 2 (6,600m) on the 8,000-meter peak. This ...

(CNN) — A permit to climb the world’s tallest mountain costs an eye-popping $15,000 — and that’s before you add in the price of airfare, gear and a guide. But Nepal, which has long sought to diversify ...