Last year, Bartek Ziemski and Oswald Rodrigo Pereira of Poland stunned the climbing community when flying under the radar, they completed unsupported ascents of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri without ...

Kangchenjunga is known for its unpredictable weather and steep faces. In the autumn of 1995, three men perished during a ...

Today is the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain. Located on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, India, Kangchenjunga means the Five Treasures ...

KOLKATA: It was in May 1955 that a British mountaineering team successfully climbed Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain at 8,586m, for the first time. But members of this expedition did ...

KARACHI: Mountaineer Sirbaz Khan has made history by becoming the first and only Pakistani to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks without the use of supplemental oxygen, completing the ...

When I received a copy of Kangchenjunga: The Himalayan Giant, mountaineer Doug Scott’s last book, published posthumously and edited by Catherine Moorehead, I expected it to be a detailed account of ...

Two women are battling it out to climb the 14 peaks at the top of the world. April 28, 2010— -- Finishing the grueling 13-hour climb on all fours, South Korea's Oh Eun Sun crawled her way into ...

Husband-and-wife mountaineering team Romano Benet and Nives Meroi were attempting a winter ascent of the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, when things went badly wrong. It was the first of two ...