Nima Rinji Sherpa’s ears are still tinged black from wind chill, an occupational hazard of climbing to heights where humans ...

In a time when climbers often choose their own ambitions over assisting others, I recall the heroic efforts of Simone Mora in ...

Fascinating Mystery of Why Everest, the World’s Tallest Mountain, Keeps Growing Taller Mount Everest, despite being the world ...

This balancing act, known as isostatic rebound, lifted Everest and two other nearby peaks — Lhotse and Makalu — boosting their height by at least 49 feet (15 meters) and perhaps by as much as ...

Thirty-five years ago today, one of the all-time giants of mountaineering perished. On Oct. 24, 1989, Poland’s Jerzy Kukuczka ...

Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face. The central section is cut by massive ...

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and is an unavoidable part of the traditional southeast route up Everest. Camp III sits about halfway up this ascending wall of ...

Alina was born in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) and started mountaineering in 2017. It took her only 18 months to reach the ...

One of them was paralysed, the other was hallucinating and the third fell down a deep crevasse on some of the highest ...

His team said he summitted the world's highest mountain, 29,032-foot Mount Everest, last year, within a day of reaching the top of another peak on the 8,000-meter-plus list, Mount Lhotse.

The Piolets d'Or - The Golden Ice Ave The Piolets d’Or, known as the ‘Golden Ice Axe’, represents mountaineering’s highest ...

Over the next two years, he summited all of the “eight-thousanders,” including Everest, the world’s highest mountain at 8,849 ...