A teenager from Nepal has returned home to a hero's welcome after becoming the youngest person to climb the world's 14 highest mountains. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the 8,027m (26,335ft ...

A teenager who has become the youngest person to climb more than a dozen of the ... which assists people in mountain treks throughout Nepal, China and Pakistan. Sherpas are an ethnic group ...

A climbing movie by James Pearson, featuring the British climber’s efforts to repeat the historic 8c+ sports climb Bronx at Orgon, freed by François Petit in 1994. Pearson’s video represents to some ...

The first documented person to climb the "Seven Summits" — the tallest mountain on each continent — was Dick Bass. He wasn't a professional athlete or mountaineer of any kind, just an American ...

Makalu Climbing Team Retreats Shy of Summit With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the ...

On Thursday 28 April Swiss alpinist and mountain guide Erhard Loretan died in a climbing accident while ascending Grünhorn in the Bernse Alps. Loretan was one of the greatest alpinists of the modern ...

While some hard-core mountaineers have climbed the highest mountain in each of Japan’s 47 prefectures, no one else has gone about it quite like this. Hiroaki Futagami, 51, decided to climb the ...