Distinguished mountaineer Gerard Hommel, a veteran of six Everest expeditions, died after falling off a ladder: he slipped ...

With jaw-dropping free big wall ascents and a life packed with adrenaline and adventure, climber Tommy Caldwell has had a ...

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell are two of the world’s best climbers. Why did they add a ... Sure, there’s a little screen of trees along the road, and when you’re whizzing by at 75 miles ...

The rescue operation ended up taking 80 hours. An American climber along with her British climbing partner have been rescued at an altitude of more than 20,000 feet after becoming stranded in the ...

The climbers had been reported missing since Sunday and a rescue helicopter spotted their bodies on Tuesday, said Pemba Jangbu Sherpa of the Kathmandu-based IAM Trekking and Expeditions.

"One of them could have slipped on the slope and all five fell together." The group of climbers were reported missing on Sunday. Pemba, who works for the company that provided support to the team ...

An expert mountaineer has died in a tragic incident. Michael Radner—a professional alpine-climber who ascended Denali's Isis Face, as well as Alaska's Cassin Ridge and the East Face of Mt.

A British climber who went missing in the Himalayas ... afternoon and the second night in the cold with no food and only little water. "The helicopter flew passed again, couldn’t see us.

By Yan Zhuang Two climbers, one American and one British, were rescued from a Himalayan mountain after being stranded for three nights at nearly 20,000 feet, Indian officials said. The climbers ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa’s achievement highlights the role of Sherpas in an activity where they shoulder much of the risk but receive little glory ... mountain killed two climbers who were each ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Teams have rescued two mountain climbers who were trapped 20,000 feet high in the Himalayas for two days after a rope that was being used to hoist their provisions snapped.

With jaw-dropping big wall ascents and a life packed with adrenaline and adventure, climber Tommy Caldwell has had a career worthy of – and captured by – a feature film. But after an agonizing ...