The second, or fall, climbing season in the Himalaya will soon end. Deep winter will soon envelope the highest mountains in the world rendering these giants unclimbable. Several expeditions have set ...

Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

When the sun rose on the morning of October 5, climbers Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak sat perched on a tiny rock ledge at 21,000 feet, high on the flanks of the 22,949-foot Himalayan peak Chaukhamba ...

American Michelle Dvorak and British climber Fay Manners were transported to safety by an Indian Air Force helicopter on Oct. 5 Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been ...

Sherpas cross icefall, open route for climbers to move up on Everest A group of Sherpa climbers ‌have opened the route to Mount Everest that had been blocked for two weeks by chunks of ice and a giant ...

Climbers from around the world will soon complete their Mt. Everest preparations, and their expeditions will depart for Base Camp. The exciting spring climbing season begins with excitement and ...

On Annapurna, the margin between life and death is painfully thin. Ashok Lama, a Nepali guide, recently saved two climbers on ...

Himlung Himal (7,126m) on the border between Manang and Mustang where an Australian climber Chin-Tark Chan died on 29 October. Photo: ASIATICROADS.COM The autumn mountaineering season is not over yet, ...

Nepal's Spring 2026 climbing season has opened with a flurry of successful ascents across three eight-thousanders in a single weekend, with teams reaching the summits of Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and ...

LOOK UP: A fore-shortened view of Lhotse's imposing South Face from the summit of Island Peak. Photo: EDWARD MORGAN Last spring, I climbed a couple of easy 6,000ers in Nepal with Howard Lister. When ...