This mountain may not be as high or as famous as Everest, but it's a riskier endeavor requiring a higher level of skill and fitness to successfully summit.

When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually crowded with giants. Nearly all of them are clustered in the Himalayas and ...

Thompson brings a lot of experience to the question, having climbed the Seven Summits (the tallest mountains on each ...

On August 4-9, Marc Toralles, Bru Busom, and Ruben Sanmartin opened a difficult alpine-style route on 6,634m Yerupaja, Peru’s second-highest mountain. The Spaniards' 3,000m line went up the east face ...

Tracee Metcalfe wouldn’t have considered herself a mountaineer at the beginning of it all. Growing up in the suburbs of L.A.

After a difficult climbing season on K2 comes to a close, tragedy has struck again. The late-spring season was already marred by tragic death, challenging climbing conditions, and very few successful ...

After a rescuer was stranded while attempting to retrieve her body, a team of climbers set out on foot An experienced Chinese climber died while descending the world’s second-highest mountain, just a ...

A solo female climber was nearing the remote summit of California’s second-tallest mountain last week when she fell, injuring her leg so badly the bone was sticking through her skin. What’s more, she ...