Metcalfe, a 50-year-old doctor from Colorado, recently became the first American woman to ascend all 14 mountains above 8,000 ...

The Hurricanes led 3-2 after Necas scored with 7:34 left in the the second before MacKinnon and Lehkonen scored 53 seconds ...

This year, the Hilaree Nelson Fund awarded $60,000 to individuals and non-profits creating more opportunities for women in ...

Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary crew supercharged ...

This remained an Everest altitude record without a breathing ... He could have been swept down by an avalanche from somewhere on the north face. Or his body could have been thrown off the mountain." ...

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Mount Everest's Sherpas are considering a climbing boycott following the deadliest avalanche in the mountain's history. Several Sherpas have already quit, while others are still mulling over a boycott ...

On this day in 1886, the German-Swiss mountaineer Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was born. We detail his astonishing successes in ...

Known in Tibet as the “Goddess Mother of the World” and “Goddess of the Sky” in Nepal, Mount Everest seems almost divine as it looks over the snowy landscape below. However, this stoic peak is not a ...

Immediately beyond the avalanche path, on an elevated bench ... Launched just a couple of months ago, Everest Bungee offers plunges from the Hillary Bridge – alongside the EBC trail – below ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...