This article uncovers the highest mountains in Asia and their breathtaking altitudes, with the Himalayas' peaks dominating ...

Join an unforgettable excursion that brings together Nepal’s finest hiking routes and height ascents. Scale Island height, ...

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, an Austrian-born mountaineer, became the first woman to climb the world's 14 highest peaks without ...

Kailash is not so high and not so hard." Rising about 22 miles / 35km to the northwest of Cho Oyu in Tibet, the Labuche Kang massif is little explored. The main summit, Labuche Kang I, was climbed in ...

Here's some good news for climbers planning to visit the Karakoram this year. Pakistan's threat to triple permit prices is on ...

In 1970, the wind-swept slopes of Denali were the site of an unsung historic feat: the first all-women’s attempt to summit one of the big mountains of the world. By then, we had sent men to the ...

“I loved it and kept going back,” he says. His renown grew in 2006 when he became the first Briton to ski down an 8000-metre mountain: Cho Oyu in Nepal, the sixth highest in the worl ...

There are only 14 places on Earth where you can enter the death zone, places where the oxygen pressure is so low that there’s simply not enough to sustain human life beyond a matter of hours.