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

Few outdoor adventures offer the payoff rock climbing does — a screensaver-worthy shot from a summit, along with a story you’ll never tire of telling. The boasting and epic views are rewards for years ...

The Stairway To Heaven, located at the top of Tianmen Mountain, was damaged by an automobile from Chery trying to scale it.

I’m flying into Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Airport to climb that very peak, a 19,340ft behemoth that looms large from the ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

The majority of guides who lead tourists up Mount Everest are Sherpas, an ethnic group. Some Sherpa guides predict that soon, no one from their community will work on the mountain anymore. They said ...

EpicTV spoke with Tommy Caldwell before he embarked on the Dawn Wall climb. EpicTV Readers sound off on the latest Sports headlines. A graphic tracks an attempt by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson to ...

Amy McCulloch’s new novel “Breathless” (Anchor Books) gives new meaning to the term high-stakes thriller: It’s set on a mountain, specifically Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world. Journalist ...