When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali ...

President Donald Trump announced the name of Alaska’s highest peak — and North America’s tallest at over 20,000 feet — Denali ...

When thinking of the world's highest county, more mountainous regions such as Switzerland and Nepal may be the obvious choice ...

K2, known as the 'savage mountain' in the Karakoram, is the world’s second-highest peak. It boasts a fatality rate of 13%, which is down dramatically in recent years (it previously hovered ...

Hacking ice blocks from the frozen ground while battling the terrifying creep of frostbite in a raging snow storm on the only continent on earth so ... to summit the highest peaks on seven ...

Earth's average land and ocean surface temperature in 2024 was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average—the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA's 1850–2024 climate record.

Over the past century ambitious and brave mountaineers have sought the highest and most remote mountains in the world to explore and climb. Their expeditions, often at the expense of mountaineers ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan, 17, has become the youngest girl globally to conquer the highest peaks on all seven continents after successfully climbing Antarctica's Vinson Massif. Earlier this year ...

KARACHI: Pakistani mountaineer Asad Ali Memon has added another feather to his cap by summitting Mount Vinson, the highest peak ... most remote and coldest peaks on Earth. "From Karachi to ...