While many mountaineers and hikers seek summits for conquest, some peaks remain untouched because they are revered, protected or ecologically fragile.

For most adventurers, mountains represent a challenge, victory, and the experience of being on top of the world. However, ...

KATHMANDU- As Nepal’s high mountains, including Mount Everest, have been struggling with decades of waste accumulation, the Nepal government has introduced a five-year plan to keep the mountains clean ...

Climbing is a practice that spread many years ago and has managed to conquer peaks that seemed unattainable. A silent ascent ...

Ever since the beginning of time, mountains have been scaled not only as the highest landmasses on the face of the earth but ...

Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars. It is the tallest mountain in space. It is almost three times higher than Mount ...

Given their size, you’re unlikely to have a Julian Cooper piece hanging in your house. But now, in his late 70s, his lifetime work’s been gathered in this book. The post Book review: The Art of Julian ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Search and rescue teams found one climber dead after falling 500 feet off a 13,000-foot mountain on New Year’s Eve. The Alpine Rescue Team said on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, they ...

DUBLIN, CA – Bay Area resident Surendra Saxena has released a memoir, ‘Kailash: Footsteps to the Divine’, a spiritual travelogue that recounts his decades-long dream and eventual journey to Mount ...

A 26-year-old climber went missing while attempting to summit Mount Hood on Saturday, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Matthew Aldridge, of Bend, was trying to summit the ...

The search for a Bend man who went missing while trying to climb Mount Hood on Dec. 13 has been suspended, according to the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office. Matthew Aldridge, 26, had been climbing ...