Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. We examine the routes on the difficult, rarely climbed Nepalese side of ...

At 8,188m, Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. Located 20km west of Everest, it sits astride the border of Tibet and Nepal. We already wrote a brief climbing history of the mountain, ...

Walnut Creek native Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison becoming the first person to ski down Everest's ...

Yosemite National Park, widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rock climbing has attracted generations of climbers seeking to scale iconic El Capitan and its famous routes. The history of ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

PORTLAND -- One of the deadliest climbing accidents on Mount Hood came on a sunny spring day in prime conditions. The icy volcanic cone has been a deadly lure to Oregonians for decades, drawing ...

Aleksandra Mirosław was stood poised at the base of a 15-meter climbing wall, waiting for three pips of a buzzer to signal the start of her race. Six seconds later, she was an Olympic champion. And ...

In April, the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup season kicked off with a jaw-dropping boulder competition in Keqiao. Annie Sanders of the U.S. won the gold medal for women, ...

Swiss mountaineer Dani Arnold is the twelfth recipient of the Paul Preuss Prize, awarded each year in memory of the bold Austrian alpinist. Instated in 2013, past winners are Reinhold Messner, ...