Add to ORKGTeams fail to climb K2 in winter 2017. American climber Conrad Anker suffers a heart attack on Lunag-Ri. Everest’s spring 2017 season brings 373 permitted climbers, including two women who make records: Uto Ibrahimi becomes the first woman from Albania to summit, and Tsang Yin Hung of Hong Kong sets a female speed record. Ueli Steck dies in a fall on Nuptse. In Memoriam: Royal Robbins, by Michael Wejchert. And more
David Sanderson recollects trying to save Alfred Whipple Jr. and Sidney Crouch on Cannon Mountain in...
For mountaineers, the 14 peaks above 8,000 meters-all located in the Himalayan range near the border...
C.S.W acknowledges support: the Mount Everest Foundation, the British Society for Geomorphology, the...
A quick summary of new routes on big mountains. Six climbers died and two lied about their summit su...
Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges is a report of Griffin Post’s discove...
In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 metres had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other member...
Mount Everest is an extreme environment for humans. Nevertheless, hundreds of mountaineers attempt t...
Everest climber and White Mountain fixture Rick Wilcox reflects on his commitment to search-and-resc...
Mount Everest is an extreme environment for humans. Nevertheless, hundreds of mountaineers attempt t...
Article for The Chrysalis Reader about an avalanche in the Nepal Himalayas in October 1999
Analysis of the winter of 2018–2019 covers skiers off the regular routes, a hiker lost in a morning ...
A crew member at the Mount Washington Observatory is called on to recover a body on the eastern slop...
On 16 January 2021, a team of Nepalese mountaineers claimed the last great prize of high altitude mo...
Mountaineering is a popular sport and leisure activity participated by people at all levels. It invo...
A tribute to late journalist Elizabeth Hawley, an American living in Nepal who created and maintaine...
David Sanderson recollects trying to save Alfred Whipple Jr. and Sidney Crouch on Cannon Mountain in...
For mountaineers, the 14 peaks above 8,000 meters-all located in the Himalayan range near the border...
C.S.W acknowledges support: the Mount Everest Foundation, the British Society for Geomorphology, the...
A quick summary of new routes on big mountains. Six climbers died and two lied about their summit su...
Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges is a report of Griffin Post’s discove...
In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 metres had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other member...
Mount Everest is an extreme environment for humans. Nevertheless, hundreds of mountaineers attempt t...
Everest climber and White Mountain fixture Rick Wilcox reflects on his commitment to search-and-resc...
Mount Everest is an extreme environment for humans. Nevertheless, hundreds of mountaineers attempt t...
Article for The Chrysalis Reader about an avalanche in the Nepal Himalayas in October 1999
Analysis of the winter of 2018–2019 covers skiers off the regular routes, a hiker lost in a morning ...
A crew member at the Mount Washington Observatory is called on to recover a body on the eastern slop...
On 16 January 2021, a team of Nepalese mountaineers claimed the last great prize of high altitude mo...
Mountaineering is a popular sport and leisure activity participated by people at all levels. It invo...
A tribute to late journalist Elizabeth Hawley, an American living in Nepal who created and maintaine...
David Sanderson recollects trying to save Alfred Whipple Jr. and Sidney Crouch on Cannon Mountain in...
For mountaineers, the 14 peaks above 8,000 meters-all located in the Himalayan range near the border...
C.S.W acknowledges support: the Mount Everest Foundation, the British Society for Geomorphology, the...