Mountains have always drawn people towards them. Some attract climbers seeking technical challenges, others lure pilgrims ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, Bartek Ziemski and Oswald Rodrigo Pereira of Poland stunned the climbing community when flying under the radar, they ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today is the 70th anniversary of the first ascent of 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain. Located on the ...

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 Maya Sherpa, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, and Dawa Yangzum Sherpa told friends they wanted to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, many tried to talk them out of it. Although all three had ...

Aleister Crowley, who scandalised Victorian society with his talk of the dark arts, was also an avid climber who attempted K2 in 1902 (Alamy/Daniel Light ) Crowley, though, was more than just a poseur ...

The Sherpa who accompanied climber Oh Eun-sun’s disputed ascent of Kangchenjunga last year asserted that the Korean climber reached the top of the 8,586-meter peak. The Sherpa, Pema Tshirins, was one ...

Members of the joint India-Nepal mountaineering expedition that successfully summited Kangchenjunga in May. - ADGPI/X via ST/ANN KOLKATA: It was in May 1955 that a British mountaineering team ...