A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

The Earth's Furnace There's a reason why Death Valley is named as such. S. 7°C). Venturing into this harsh landscape without ...

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

A second avalanche hit mountaineer Mattia Conte of Italy and five Sherpas from Seven Summit Treks, all of whom survived the blast of snow and ice though ... ascents on Mt. Everest, Manaslu ...

The British group’s gear will already be at Everest base camp alongside Lukas Furtenbach, an Austrian mountain guide ... Cape Town for three hours on the ice, returning after a champagne ...

I've always been fascinated by mountaineering, but I confess that I've never really understood it. I've read Into Thin Air and Touching the Void and watched the films based on them, as well as others ...

Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do ...

This week, alpinist Anatoli Boukreev would have turned 67. One of the best alpinists of the 20th century, Boukreev made hundreds of bold ascents.

I heard a snap and felt all the pain, and for a second I thought that I broke something because of how loud it popped,” he told the Herald this week from his base in Wānaka, having been in the country ...

I recently summited Mount Everest, in 2024, without supplementary ... Boulders have begun to jut out of what was once just ice and snow. In one spot, a crevasse had opened up, whose depth I ...