Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

The second, or fall, climbing season in the Himalaya will soon end. Deep winter will soon envelope the highest mountains in the world rendering these giants unclimbable. Several expeditions have set ...

This stage of the Himalayan trek delivered more surprises than I could have imagined. What began as a familiar rhythm of ...

The tumultuous 2023 Himalayan climbing season was marked by both triumph and tragedy. More climbers than ever set out for Mount Everest's summit, and 17 died on the mountain, the most ever in a season ...

Endurance athlete Tyler Andrews, 34, recently broke the Fastest Known Time (“FKT”) on the 8th highest mountain in the world – Manaslu. He accomplished this feat on September 19, 2024, in 9 hours and ...

An Indian and a Romanian climber died on Mount Lhotse in Nepal, one of the world’s highest mountains, taking the total number of fatalities during this year’s spring climbing season in the Himalayas ...

LOOK UP: A fore-shortened view of Lhotse's imposing South Face from the summit of Island Peak. Photo: EDWARD MORGAN Last spring, I climbed a couple of easy 6,000ers in Nepal with Howard Lister. When ...

“Climb like a woman means to own it—being a woman—and to say, ‘I am proud to climb like a woman. Yes, I am that badass!’” said Sara Vetteth, 47, a mother of two and an entrepreneur who attended the ...