Elite mountain guide company Madison Mountaineering’s Makalu expedition reached the summit, and the team has safely returned to their base camp. Makalu, located on the Nepal-Tibet border in the ...

An American climber died attempting to scale the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, in the Himalayas, his expedition organizer said Monday. It was the second death of this climbing season.

Now, with the return of good weather, ascents of 8,485m Makalu have resumed. A significant number of climbers are not using bottled oxygen on this fifth-highest peak on Earth. Saulius Damulevicius ...

An American climber died Sunday on Mount Makalu in Nepal during a climb to raise money for a children's cancer program. Alexander Pancoe, 39, died while settling into his sleeping bag at the ...

Tragedy struck on Makalu (8,485m / 27,840 feet), the world’s fifth-highest peak, when Alex Pancoe, 39, of Chicago, apparently suffered cardiac arrest at Camp 2 (6,600m) on the 8,000-meter peak.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An American climber died while attempting to scale Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday. Nepal’s Mountaineering Department identified the climber who died Sunday on ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An American climber died while attempting to scale Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday. Nepal’s Mountaineering Department identified the climber who died ...