Antoine Erout is part of a French-Nepali team building a new route up Mount Everest that avoids what’s known as the Khumbu icefall. Due to the popularity of the route, as well as increased fragility ...

On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ...

Nicknamed skimo, ski mountaineering combines uphill skiing (skinning), technical climbing (bootpacking) and downhill skiing.

The “Roof of Africa” is the continent’s most climbed peak—which often means trekking in the company of crowds. These five climbs offer under-the-radar alternatives with challenging trails and wild ...

Boris Egorov, Vladimir Murzaev, and Konstantin Yaemurd became the first known group to jump from Patagonia’s Mount Fitz Roy.

All alone. Monet Izabeth pulled a 200-pound sled in the Antarctic wilderness to reach the South Pole. She’s the first ...

Were managers pushing too hard to open? Are young patrollers afraid to speak up? With two dead in deliberately triggered ...

He became famous after scaling El Capitan without protective equipment in 2017. Now the 40-year-old athlete has completed the first free solo of Taipei 101 in Taiwan ...

Monet Eliastam had no time to feel nervous. On Nov. 23, a small plane dropped her off in ferocious winds on the Hercules Inlet along the outer edge of Antarctica.