All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

In situations of extreme danger, many report having perceived a figure that comforts and guides — is it our brain’s emergency ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

On the 66th anniversary of the disputed first ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia by Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger, we examine ...

Kailash Parvat, reaching a height of 6,638 meters in the secluded area of Tibet, is far more than merely a mountain. To millions worldwide, it represents the most sacred summit, honored by Hindus, ...

Furtenbach’s great-uncle Oswald Oelz, an Austrian-Swiss mountaineer, was an expedition doctor on Reinhold Messner’s 1978 attempt to become the first person to climb Everest without bottled oxygen.

For over two decades, Reinhold Kulle made sure classrooms were spotless and faculty had all the supplies they needed. He kept hallways quiet during play rehearsals and made sure students had a ...

To live in the small town of Haines, Alaska, is to live with bears, with roughly one brown bear for every nine human residents. Last winter, a local snowboarder woke a hibernating brown bear in ...