Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Paul "PJ" Ortiz Jr. was climbing Mount Whitney in the Eastern Sierra mountains when he fell from a cliff in an infamous area ...

Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. We examine the routes on the difficult, rarely climbed Nepalese side of ...

The author and her partner recently ascended a 10,000-foot peak in the Cascades while dressed for a cocktail party ...

The highest railway in the UK, which reopened in February this year after a £25million refurbishment, offers visitors ...

Scotland's only mountain railway re-opened in February this year after a £25million refurbishment and offers stunning, scenic ...

Two mountaineers, one French and one South Korean, have died in Nepal after separate expeditions to the Ama Dablam mountain ...