The true winter climbing season begins on December 21 - the first day of the astronomical winter, and three Himalayan teams ...

The second, or fall, climbing season in the Himalaya will soon end. Deep winter will soon envelope the highest mountains in the world rendering these giants unclimbable. Several expeditions have set ...

Two French veterans led a team of young women climbers to Uttarakhand, where they forged a new route on a 5,200m granite ...

Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

The true winter climbing season in the Himalayas beings on December 21st , and several teams have plans to attempt climbing some of the highest mountains in the world during this ominous period – the ...

Climbing expeditions will soon launch into the Himalayas to prepare for their bids on 8,000-meter peaks – the highest mountains in the world. By early May, the Jetstream will make its annual northern ...

Endurance athlete Tyler Andrews, 34, recently broke the Fastest Known Time (“FKT”) on the 8th highest mountain in the world – Manaslu. He accomplished this feat on September 19, 2024, in 9 hours and ...

The Expedition Operators Association Nepal (EOA-Nepal) has completed a post-season cleanup and rope-removal operation on Ama ...

In the 1980s, exploratory alpinists Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders stunned the climbing community when they first climbed the Golden Pillar of Spantik. Fowler described their difficult line as the ...

A Greek climber died Tuesday on Nepal's rugged Mount Dhaulagiri, expedition organizers said, in the first recorded fatality of this year's busy Himalayan spring climbing season. Antonios Sykaris's ...

LOOK UP: A fore-shortened view of Lhotse's imposing South Face from the summit of Island Peak. Photo: EDWARD MORGAN Last spring, I climbed a couple of easy 6,000ers in Nepal with Howard Lister. When ...