Kangchenjunga is known for its unpredictable weather and steep faces. In the autumn of 1995, three men perished during a ...

In a kinder, gentler world, Ben Folds’ name would be mentioned in the same breath as piano greats Billy Joel and Elton John. Like the other two, Folds is a brilliant lyricist, a fantastic pianist, and ...

Welcome to South Tyrol – a dramatic natural amphitheatre in northern Italy, where the chalk-white spires of the mountains soar more than 3,000m into the sky. A UNESCO World Heritage site and a ...

From candlelit mansions to ghostly art tours, the Big Apple is teeming with places that reveal its haunted history. In the Dolomites, mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner has turned his life story ...

On the 28th, at the Ulsan Ulju World Mountain Film Festival (UMFF), world-renowned mountaineers Reinhold Messner (81 years old, Italy) and Um Hong-gil (65 years old, UMFF Executive Committee Chairman) ...

Bargiel made history after climbing and skiing down Mount Everest without bottled oxygen on Tuesday, Sept. 23 Polish skier Andrzej Bargiel became the first athlete to climb up and ski down Mount ...

Alison Hargreaves was the first woman in the world to climb Mt Everest without a sherpa or supplemental oxygen, but her life was not without struggles against barriers pioneering women have faced ...

York St John University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It was May 4 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were ...

“In the ’60s and ’70s, I would say I had quite a lot of material, but afterwards I learned to leave it behind… My art was not to use better and better materials or more and more equipment. My art was ...

“A tourist follows a trail, a mountaineer finds one.” Outspoken, charismatic, daring and brilliant, few individuals hold the respect of the mountaineering community like Reinhold Messner. Widely ...

Sherpa on mission to ‘inspire a new generation and redefine mountaineering’ This handout photograph taken on March 28, 2024, and released by 14 Peaks Expedition shows Nepali mountaineer Nima Rinji ...