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My Guilty Reading Pleasure—Climb Every Mountain

Like writing, mountaineering requires imagination, enthusiasm, creativity, and courage. By Kate Levin At the end of Scott Ellsworth’s The World Beneath Their Feet, Everest has fina...

On Harmukh, a Kashmiri mountaineer seeks summits few have attempted

Srinagar, Jul 27: For seven days, Wasim Hassan Rather climbed across the ridgelines of Harmukh, one of Kashmir's most mountainous massifs, moving from one unnamed or little-documen...

TO TOUCH THE SKY

The author visited Nepal in 2014 in the shadow of Sagarmatha, “goddess of the sky,” better known in the West as Everest, in the hopes of scaling the smaller but still imposing Isla...

Nadhira and the arithmetic of ascent

Before every mountain, there is the private arithmetic of what can be carried. Crampons, ice axe, ascender, down mitts: each must justify its weight. Higher up, excess becomes cons...

Train to Mountain: Adaptive Mountaineering Training Built for the 3,000 to 5,000m Athlete

Adaptive mountaineering training for 3,000 to 5,000m peaks. Train to Mountain models mountain fitness, descent load and altitude, and connects to Garmin, Coros and Suunto. Read the...

Unprepared Man Rescued After Climbing 260 Feet Up Georgia Mountainside With No Gear

Kashmiri climbers retrace forgotten route to Sikwas Peak

Srinagar, Jul 12 : For nearly eight decades, the route to Sikwas Peak remained buried in the pages of an old mountaineering journal, untouched and largely forgotten. This week, a g...

Moment mountain guide ATTACKS climber on narrow ridge at 10,000ft after his victim criticised him for barging past his w...

The extraordinary confrontation unfolded on an exposed section of the Mürztalersteig route leading to the Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte refuge on Austria's Grossglockner mountain on Augus...

KP mountaineers scale 6,050-metre Thalo Zom peak, boosting adventure tourism prospects

Drang nach oben: Wen der Berg ruft

Wie kommen Menschen auf die Idee, Gipfel zu besteigen, auch wenn das anstrengend und manchmal sogar gefährlich ist? Eine Spurensuche. mehr...

11 Climbers Killed In Massive Avalanche @ Mount Mizhirgi, Russia

New Film Tells The Story of Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay’s Historic 1953 Ascent of Mount Everest

Shot in Nepal and set to debut at the Telluride Film Festival, Apple Original Films’ upcoming mountaineering drama Tenzing is based on the true events of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund...

Up To The Mountains

Up To The Mountains, A Small CDT Adventure Awaits           Howdy! Haven’t posted in a bit and there’s been a bit of lag in my plans to get on the CDT before I go back out to the Y...

Tragedy on Murder Wall mountain: How climbers died one-by-one on Eiger North Face including last-man-standing who mutter...

Nicknamed the 'Murder Wall' for its avalanches, rockfalls and ferocious storms, the mountain had claimed the lives of two climbers just a year earlier.

Here’s What It’s Like Skiing Washington’s Tallest Peak In July

The Mountain Never Told Me I Was Too Old

Personal Perspective: I climbed the world’s highest volcanoes in my 50s and found the real summit was learning how to challenge the stories that limit us.

British Alpinist Fay Manners Completes First Ski Descent On Peru’s Ranrapalca

British alpinist Fay Manners, a former data consultant turned elite ski mountaineer, has completed what appears to be the first ski descent of a long‑abandoned route on the southwe...

Explore the Himalayas: High Trails and Higher Peaks 

The Himalayas in Nepal are more than a mountain range. They are an area of extremes, with lofty peaks overshadowing the oldest valleys and high altitude trails cutting through some...

Inspiring the next generation of hill walkers

The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has announced an extension to its partnership with Cotswold Outdoor, strengthening a shared commitment to help more people discover their o...

Корумду чокусунда дайынсыз кеткен альпинисттерди издөө убактылуу токтотулду

Чоң-Алайдагы Корумду чокусунда жоголгон үч альпинистти издөө иштери катаал аба ырайына байланыштуу убактылуу токтотулду. Бул тууралуу Өзгөчө кырдаалдар министрлиги 11-августта каба...

10 Climbers, Including Nims Purja, Missing After Avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan

Nirmal Purja, an influential mountaineer, was part of a group struck by an avalanche on Broad Peak, an alpine organization said. A search effort was being mobilized.

Climber Suspended 50 Feet Above Canyon Floor Rescued From Colorado Via Ferrata

Steves: Peak experiences in alpine Europe

Stretching across roughly 750 miles, Europe’s highest mountain range, the Alps, arcs across eight countries, from the Mediterranean coast of France to the eastern fringes in Austri...

Корумду чокусунан эки альпинисттин сөөгү түшүрүлдү

Чоң-Алайдагы Корумду чокусунда жоголгон альпинисттердин экөөнүн сөөгү 25-августта тик учак менен тоодон түшүрүлүп, Ош шаарына өлүкканага жеткирилди. Бул тууралуу куткаруу тобу каба...