"I cried again remembering that I had just summited all 14 8,000-metre peaks and made history ... her dream was to "be famous for climbing the highest mountain in the world", because she ...

Our mountaineering expert looks into the death zone and the reasons why climbing 8,000-meter peaks can be so dangerous ...

Early on Oct. 9, Dawa Yangzum Sherpa took the final, labored steps to the pointy summit of Shishapangma (26,335 feet), the ...

The mountainous complex consists of a group of five bare rock peaks, with the highest point, Bektau- Ata, reaching 1,214m. Some of these mountains are connected by a maze of ridges and canyons, which ...

The Antarctic SummerThe fall climbing season has ended in the Himalayas, home to the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks – the highest ...

Except sometimes, that summit isn’t the actual summit. Sometimes, once you get to what you thought was the top of the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration says an air traffic controller’s instructions kept an American Airlines flight from ...

While flying over Hawaii, an American Airlines flight narrowly avoided colliding with a mountain peak in Honolulu. Flight ...

Peaks of Yore is a historical, physics-based climbing sim that’s got a near perfect score on Steam, and it just got better ...