Tracee Metcalfe wouldn’t have considered herself a mountaineer at the beginning of it all. Growing up in the suburbs of LA ...

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Dave McClung, 82, hiked eight days and 17,598 feet to reach South Base Camp at Mount Everest. He may be the oldest to ever do it.

Kilian Jornet wanted to summit 72 of the tallest peaks in the contiguous United States. He gave himself a month to do it.

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A man who has visited some of the most dangerous places in the world has described this "lawless" city as the closest thing ...

While the data itself suggests a new peak designation nay be in order, the summit has not officially been declared a “new” ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s latest photograph from the International Space Station has sparked global awe, capturing a rarely seen and stunning view of Earth’s tallest mountain.

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A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record.

As the second-tallest mountain worldwide, it has long drawn elite climbers ... incredibly remote and logistically complex—but for seasoned trekkers, few places on Earth are more awe-inspiring. (This ...

More than 200 hikers are stranded on Mount Everest, the BBC reports, after an unusual and out-of-season blizzard caught visitors off guard. Mount Everest is arguably the world's tallest mountain, ...