Nepal has sharply increased the climbing permit fees for Qomolangma, which is also known as Mount Everest in the West, and ...

Adventure travellers used to represent an elite group of intrepid travellers willing to go to nearly any extreme in pursuit ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

Eva Steinwald is training to climb Mount Everest this spring. If she makes it to the top, Steinwald will become the oldest American woman to summit Mount Everest and she will also have completed the ...

The higher he climbs, the less he thinks about daily life, says Novo Nordisk’s Cem Ozenc. There’s no time when the mental and ...

The first-ever all-women’s winter expedition from Bangladesh to Nepal’s Himalayan Langtang region took place in December 2024. We spoke to the country’s female mountaineers to find out the challenges ...

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first (and so far only) successful expedition to conquer Everest via its fiendishly ...

Karl Egloff of Ecuador has run from Aconcagua Base Camp to the main and south summits and back in 8 hrs 49 min. He is ...

Nepal bans solo climbs on Everest and all 8,000m peaks, introducing stricter rules, higher fees, and eco-measures. Here’s ...

A Gujarat IPS officer, Harresh Dudhat, became the first from the state to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, hoisting the Indian and Gujarat Police flags. Overcoming harsh snowfall, he now aims to summit Europe ...

Strong winds are always a problem in 8,000m climbing, but especially in winter, when they're even stronger. We review the ...