Benjamin Vedrines has just returned home to France after his recent success on the monster North Face of Jannu. He spoke to ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An accomplished Japanese alpinist and motivational speaker, who lost nine fingers to frostbite on a previous attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, died on the world’s ...

The 2025 Piolet d'Or shortlist includes Nepalese and Chinese alpinists for the first time. We will look at some of these ...

Extreme sports exist in that strange space where human ambition meets the absolute edge of what’s physically possible. Second ...

More than 400 people have died while attempting to reach the summit of the mountain, due to avalanches, falls, exposure, frostbite, or other health problems related to the extreme conditions. Last ...

A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, marking the third death in the park this summer. Balin Miller, 23, died in a climbing accident on Wednesday, his ...

A search for a Russian climber stranded on Kyrgystan's highest mountain has been suspended indefinitely due to severe weather conditions after another climber died trying to rescue her, the Central ...

A climber who died high on Mount McKinley Thursday has now been identified by the National Park Service as 38-year-old Beat Niederer of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Neiderer was on a rope team of four ...