Kanchha Sherpa, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Kanchha died ...

The Mohonk Mountain House Resort has a new, guided-only trail of a type more commonly found in the Dolomites and the Alps. It’s called via ferrata (loosely translated from Italian as “Iron Way”), ...

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 ...

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” ...

The rescue of an experienced mountaineer has been called off in Kyrgyzstan nearly two weeks after Natasha Nagovitsina, 47, broke her leg not far from the summit of the country’s tallest mountain, ...

The majority of guides who lead tourists up Mount Everest are Sherpas, an ethnic group. Some Sherpa guides predict that soon, no one from their community will work on the mountain anymore. They said ...

GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced Wednesday that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut speed climbing competitions at this year’s event June 5-8. These new ...