WATCH the moment a massive avalanche breaks free from the steep face of Annapurna I, one of the world’s highest and most ...

I have been in contact with American endurance athlete and mountaineer, Tyler Andrews. He has returned to the Khumbu Valley, home of the world’s highest peak. Andrews attempted the speed record on Mt.

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world's second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a Pakistani official said.