When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually ...

Recent allegations of phony summit images on the world’s highest peaks ignited a debate in the mountaineering community. We asked photography experts how to spot a hoax.

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Gray, who hails from Great Falls, reached the summit with a climbing partner in October 2024. The effort earned the team a ...

Interview with Hervé Barmasse who, together with Felix Berg and Adam Bielecki, reached the summit of Numbur Peak (6958m) in ...

Between 21 and 23 August 2025, Matteo De Zaiacomo, Chiara Gusmeroli and Davide Nesa established the new route 'Less is More' ...

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Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

Richard Bryant, a 76-year-old Ivins City retiree, summited Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, ...

A helicopter on Tuesday lifted the cross from the 2,962-meter (9,718-foot) peak of the Zugspitze — a mountain shared between ...

Kilian Jornet wanted to summit 72 of the tallest peaks in the contiguous United States. He gave himself a month to do it. By Scott Cacciola and K.K. Rebecca Lai Kilian Jornet was drenched and tired.