Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations ...

The DuPage County Board honored Lucy Westlake as part of a proclamation for Women’s History Month. The board commemorated the ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

The bitter dispute between Pakistan and local outfitters over steep price increases for permits has worsened. Some hikers ...

He will become the first South African to reach the summit of the Annapurna, which should be between April 20 and 25, weather permitting.

Renowned mountaineer Murad Sadpara, known for his mountain-climbing feats and high-altitude rescue missions, was posthumously ...

At 8,611 meters, K2 is second in height to Mount Everest but is known as the more difficult to climb. For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers ...

Among them is the deadly K2 , the world’s second tallest mountain, which boasts a terrifying death rate of more than 20%. Officials had previously planned to triple climbing fees, meaning ...

He will become the first South African to reach the summit of the Annapurna, which should be between April 20 and 25, weather permitting.

Kaltenbrunner said climbing K2, the second tallest peak in the world ... day she hopes to climb the peak of Mount Kailash, a sacred mountain in India that is over 6,500 meters tall.

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain ...