Lowe, 40, was arguably the finest mountaineer of his era ... under the tutelage of Todd Burleson at Alpine Ascents International—Lowe headed over to an adjacent 6,000-meter peak in Nepal called ...

Alex Lowe, one of the best alpinists of the 1990s, would have turned 66 today. An incredibly versatile climber, Lowe was good on big walls, alpine routes, rock climbing, skiing, and speed climbing ...

An icon of alpine mountaineering, Lowe completed more than 1,000 first ascents: on rock walls as tall as skyscrapers in Zion, Utah; up jagged icefalls in Colorado; and to oxygen-starved summits in the ...

In his career, Jeff Lowe climbed peaks around the world, including an epic solo ascent of the forbidding Eiger in the Swiss Alps in 1991.

In 1978, an elite team of American alpinists comprised of Jim Donini, Michael Kennedy, Jeff Lowe and George Lowe set off for an unclimbed peak in the remote mountains of Pakistan. Their aim: the first ...