Anil Kumar Kannangal, a retired IAF personnel and a banker from Thiruvananthapuram talks about his tryst with mountaineering ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

Have you ever finished a day out in the hills and thought, actually, I’m not sure whether that was any good? We haven’t ...

■Support for famous mountaineers By providing weather forecasts, Inokuma supports Hirotaka Takeuchi, who became the first Japanese mountaineer to conquer all fourteen 8,000+ meter peaks with a ...

Thame is a beautiful Himalayan hamlet located to the farther southwest of Everest, right below the sacred Khumbi-Yuhla.

An earth scientist explains the impact that ice loss can have on the stability of the surrounding mountain slopes and glacial lakes.

Located in Tanzania, Africa’s tallest mountain sits on the Kenyan border in East Africa, some 200 miles south of the Equator.

The Everest Base Camp trekking is a bucket-list adventure for many trekkers worldwide. While the trail itself offers ...

Among all trekking paths in Nepal the trail to Nar Phu Valley stands as an untouched mystical experience for those who ...

Our guide to the best mountaineering books of all time picks out 10 seminal works that have informed and inspired generations ...

A photographer, an airline pilot, a ship’s captain and others reveal where you’ll find the most spectacular, intriguing and ...