In 1832, Tatsu Takayama made a defiant climb up to the top of Mount Fuji dressed as a man. This is the story of her historic ...

The man, Kokichi Akuzawa, said he woke up at 5 a.m. every morning for three months to train for the feat Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...

A popular travel influencer plunged to her death during a mountain climbing expedition on the north ridge of the Tryfan mountain in Snowdonia, Wales. She was 28. Maria Eftimova, a civil engineering ...

German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain peak in northern Pakistan following a climbing accident, and efforts are underway to retrieve her body, a local government spokesman ...

For British actor Julian Sands, who went missing Friday while hiking near Mount Baldy in the San Gabriel Mountains east of Los Angeles, nearing the summit of a mountain “on a bright cold morning” ...

Aug. 20—WATERTOWN — The 10th Mountain Division will reaching new heights Wednesday in its "Climb to Glory" path of prestige. About 200 Fort Drum soldiers, in teams, are summiting the 46 Adirondack ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...