Grace Hoeman was one of the best mountaineers of the 1960s, but male-dominated climbing groups refused to let her join. When ...

The 36 year-old Italian alpinist Simone La Terra died during an attempt to climb Dhaulagiri (8167 m) in Nepal. The 2018 spring climbing season in the Himalayas has started with the bad news that ...

The Dhaulagiri Expedition is an extreme experience for mountain climbers and trekkers looking for an exciting and extraordinary Himalayan encounter. Towering at 8,167 meters, Dhaulagiri is the seventh ...

Glaciers serve as the largest reservoirs of frozen freshwater on Earth. They primarily form when massive ice sheets from the Arctic and Antarctic break into smaller sections. Additionally ...

The GLIMS initiative has created a unique glacier inventory, storing information about the extent and rates of change of all the world's mountain glaciers and ice caps. The GLIMS Glacier Database was ...