Etiket: Mountaineering

Eight climbers died while ascending the highest volcano in Asia, Klyuchevskaya Sopka. It’s located in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula. A ...

I stood on a rock ledge, terra firma far below, and took in the panorama to my left. Against the horizon sat Fairchild Mountain — reaching just ...

Everyone knows that to get to the peak of Mont Blanc you have to earn it. But now imagine having to leave a €15,000 deposit to climb to Europe's ...

A new landmark greeted mountaineers nearing the summit of Mount Everest this spring: a seven-foot-tall mast of scientific instruments bolted into ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — For two years, the Indian climber was banned from mountaineering in Nepal, accused of faking a summit of Mount Everest by ...

A small avalanche on a desolate Russian mountain, harming no one and quickly erased by the relentless wind, does not usually make news. Unless it ...

Climbing and skiing Denali in Alaska, elevation 20,310 feet, is grueling. Mountaineers endure blizzards, high altitude and weeks in subzero ...

The tattered remains of an orange tent flap in the wind. A single rope dangles from a 300-foot wall of rock. The sound of crampons squeaking on ...

A dog helped a mountaineer after he fell and was stuck in a ravine for 13 hours. Grga Brkic was injured after falling 150 metres while climbing ...

Valentine Fabre has no reason to doubt her abilities in the mountains. The 45-year-old Frenchwoman helped her country earn two world ...