This mountain may not be as high or as famous as Everest, but it's a riskier endeavor requiring a higher level of skill and fitness to successfully summit.

When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually crowded with giants. Nearly all of them are clustered in the Himalayas and ...

Tracee Metcalfe wouldn’t have considered herself a mountaineer at the beginning of it all. Growing up in the suburbs of L.A.

Nepal’s mountains have seen steady climbing activity this autumn, with 1,450 climbers across 175 teams receiving permits, ...

Nepal issued climbing permits to 1,451 mountaineers from 176 teams this autumn, inviting them to scale 59 peaks. This includes six mountains over 8,000 meters. The government earned USD 1.81 million ...

Climbing season has begun in the Korakorum mountian range, and Madison Mountaineering's expedition, led by Terray Sylvestor, will attempt an unclimbed peak, Broad Peak and mighty K2. "Today was ...

The dramatic events in Nepal this week have overshadowed the beginning of one of the most impressive athletic challenges of the year: Kilian Jornet's States of Altitude project. Jornet plans to ...

Pull off at Libby Flats near Centennial for sweeping Snowy Range views Medicine Bow Peak on the horizon and a simple high ...

When Kilian Jornet set out from Longs Peak, Colorado, on September 3, his goal wasn’t just to climb mountains, it was to ...

Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and a former record-holder in Alaska’s Mount Marathon race, did ...