Mount Everest remains the ultimate prestige symbol of the unprepared outdoorsman's bloated ego, covered in trash and corpses.

Death rates on Mount Everest have dropped significantly over the past century, even as more climbers attempt the summit, a ...

On Annapurna, the margin between life and death is painfully thin. Ashok Lama, a Nepali guide, recently saved two climbers on ...

And that is that you’re going to want to do them with a reliable fitness tracker on your wrist. Devices like the Fitbit ...

A crevasse strewn with chunks of ice, including one towering block, has stranded hundreds of mountaineers at the Himalayan ...

A newly discovered microbial switch, triggered by a single missing nutrient, could accelerate climate change faster than ...

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have ...

Climbing Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen is one of mountaineering’s most extreme feats, demanding extraordinary endurance, skill, and mental resilience. In the thin air of the death zone, ...

Ever wondered what it feels like to ascend an 8,000-meter peak without supplemental oxygen? Mountaineer Stefi Trouget takes ...

Runner and mountaineer Ty Andrews is attempting to set the speed record for climbing Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. Andrews, a Concord native, has transitioned from competitive running to ...

Albany, NY (News10) — Less than 8,000 people have summitted Mt. Everest. One of those very few includes a man with ties to the Capital Region. A Skidmore College alumnus who’s had quite the year, Matt ...