Mountain climbing or mountaineering is among the most famous adventure sports in the world. Every year, hundreds and thousands of people try climbing different mountains in order to win prizes or to ...

Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker shares a name with a 19 th century alpinist, the first woman to summit the Matterhorn, in 1871, and the Eiger, in 1864 (feats she accomplished in ...

The only woman to have scaled Mount Everest 10 times is making easy work of a steep hill in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. On a blistering July day, Lhakpa Sherpa — whose remarkable story is told in the ...

The new mountain-climbing documentary Meru is not only an irresistible adrenaline rush of a movie (opening Friday at Bay Area theatres), but for serious film buffs a very tangible lesson in the ...

Alex Honnold is a Rock Star. Alex is an American climber known for his amazing feats climbing rock. He thrives on massive granite walls, with little to no protection, and often climbs alone. Honnold ...

As any true adventurer knows, not every night can be spent under the stars in a national park, or clinging to the side of a big wall in a portaledge. Some nights are meant to be spent cuddled up with ...

Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Sasha DiGiulian was destined to scale to great heights. “I went to my brother’s birthday party in the late ’90s at a climbing gym called Sportrock,” DiGiulian told ...