Filipinos will once again climb greater feats. Mountaineers Elaine Jhon “Jeno” Panganiban and Miguel Mapalad are set to make ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

Carbondale resident Blake Gordon will screen his snowboarding adventure film “Papsura: Peak of Evil” tonight at Aspen ...

Proven Thoroughbreds and Pride could be set for a more positive weekend with Accredited set to line up in the Group 3 $250,000 Southern Cross Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens. It’s been ...

Far fewer climbers ascend Everest from China compared to Nepal. Per The Himalayan Database , a website that charts ascents on Nepal’s 8,000-meter peaks, 91 percent of the 861 Everest summits in ...

A portfolio weighted heavily towards primary casualty lines amplified the impact of social inflation on Everest’s book and contributed to unfavourable reserve development of more than $1.7bn in ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

A new regulation may ban independent climbers on all Nepal's 8,000m peaks, including Everest. As of this fall, everyone must use a local guide.

The two peaks lie deep beneath the Earth's surface. Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific ...