Nepal has now made an announcement to ban solo expedition to all the mountains above 8000 meters. This applies to Mount ...

KATHMANDU – Nepal has officially ended solo expeditions on Everest and other 8,000-metre peaks by amending its mountaineering regulations. The Sixth Amendment was implemented on Tuesday following its ...

Imagine crossing an ocean and a continent, then climbing more than 19,000 feet above sea level and finding something from ...

Mount Vinson, Antarctica Climbers enjoy great success on Mount Vinson this season. The Antarctic summer runs from November ...

Patrick Monday became the second Aggie in Texas A&M history to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

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

Ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Amy Mazur, recently retired and about to turn 63, is such a person. She plans to ...