We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

Vittoria Sella scaled many tall peaks, including Kangchenjunga and K2, and took some of the greatest photographs ever of the ...

Elite mountain guiding company enjoyed great success on Antartica's Mount Vinson during this season's Antartic summer.

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

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

Growing up, Aidan Hyman wasn’t really into athletics. Then a cute guy came along. He was captain of the high school cross ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

As the trail rises yet further, the path to Base Camp transforms completely. The lush greenery gives way to a rocky, barren landscape that feels almost otherworldly. The mountain tops, striking in ...

Garrett led the successful run with a five-fold increase in StumbleUpon user base that included 25 million users by 2012. That was its peak, Around mid-2012, Camp stepped down as the CEO to focus ...

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than familiar aids like bottled oxygen.