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 ...

The majority of guides who lead tourists up Mount Everest are Sherpas, an ethnic group. Some Sherpa guides predict that soon, no one from their community will work on the mountain anymore. They said ...

In the world of extreme sports, the stakes are high—quite literally.As a mountaineer who has climbed over 40 peaks and is the ...

Climbing teams are progressing on Mt. Everest as the spring climbing season in the Himalayas takes shape. At 29,029 feet, the highest mountain in the world endures the relentless force of the Jet ...

“You died doing something you loved in a place that you loved," the wife of Alex Pancoe wrote in an Instagram post Alex Pancoe/Instagram Mountain climber Alex Pancoe, who had previously survived a ...

In Nepal, an avalanche claimed the lives of three climbers, including a foreign national, on Yalung Ri Himal mountain. Eight ...

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An avalanche swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal on Monday and killed five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said.

Two mountaineers, one French and one South Korean, have died in Nepal after separate expeditions to the Ama Dablam mountain ...