The other day, I finally went mountain climbing!We started off in a lively group of five adults and four children.Even though ...

A novice climber who fell roughly 1,500 vertical feet on Mt. Shasta was rescued Sunday afternoon in a dramatic response that underscores ongoing safety concerns on the mountain’s most popular route. U ...

Apple TV ‘s new documentary about one of history’s most dangerous mountaineering expeditions is quickly becoming a streaming ...

Lev, the film forgoes the optimistic gloss typical of the genre and gets at the complex reasons that people scale peaks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountaineering is used interchangeably with mountain climbing, alpine climbing, and alpinism. It's the sport of hiking and ...

The cast of ‘Tenzing’ talks about trekking to Everest Basecamp, climbing out of crevasses, and witnessing avalanches.

For longtime hikers and backpackers, the desire to tackle bigger, more technical mountains tends to come around eventually. Spend enough time staring at glaciated peaks from camp, and sooner or later, ...

Only those who have experienced summer mountaineering can fully understand its beauty. Getting up before dawn to face a climb on snow and rock, in a hostile environment where you have to think about ...

In a summer of firsts, mountain-climbing Benedictine monks of Mount Angel Abbey took to the heights — their locally brewed beer tucked in backpacks — ascending renowned peaks in the Pacific Northwest ...