Paul "PJ" Ortiz Jr. was climbing Mount Whitney in the Eastern Sierra mountains when he fell from a cliff in an infamous area ...

The ski run starts atop Everest, some 29,000 feet above sea level and in the death zone, where people can’t survive for long.

Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and a former record-holder in Alaska’s Mount Marathon race, did ...

Explorers have traveled to the most hostile regions of the planet because of the human desire to see what lies beyond the ...

Already known as Cyclone Montha, the severe storm will hit the higher Himalayan regions from Tuesday through Friday, with ...

Over 20 hikers were rescued from Mount Washington in New Hampshire on Saturday (October 25) after being caught in unexpected winter conditions. According to the Mount Washington Cog Railway, the ...

The Colorado Springs climbing family is at it again. This week Sylvan Evermore is ascending El Capitan, the famous ...

And on Sunday, the McClung men reached the camp, likely making David the eldest person in the world to complete the rigorous ...

Last month, as the 2025 climbing season began on Mount Everest, Nepal’s upper house of Parliament introduced a tourism bill that includes a suite of new rules that would significantly raise the bar ...

So far, about 350 climbers have been safely transported to a small nearby mountain town Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was ...