Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

The route to the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 feet), the tallest mountain in the world, has just arrived at Camp 4 (7,900m/ 25,920 feet). This camp, also known ...

A Tennessee man was killed after the car he was driving crashed into a stopped dump truck in Nicholas County Monday morning.

This often results in long queues of climbers in the “Death Zone,” an area below the summit with insufficient natural oxygen for survival. Overcrowding has been blamed for the high number of ...

On March 13, Vidya Singh stood triumphantly at 5,895 metres above sea level, becoming the oldest woman in India to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. This 72-year-old woman from Chennai, whose passion for ...

Explore the breathtaking Mount Pilatus, the crown jewel of Lucerne, Switzerland. Home to the world’s steepest cogwheel railway — with a 48% gradient over 4,618 meters — this engineering feat ...

Mount St. Helens is 52 miles northeast of Portland ... We had to ascend roughly 5,000 feet of elevation to reach the summit of 8,363 feet. On top of the normal fitness-related brutality of ...

Elizabeth’s Mitchell Minda won the Mt. Summit Challenge on Sunday morning in a time of 26:03.1. The 3.5-mile race starts at the bottom of the mountain in Hopwood and climbs up until it reaches ...

Arriving on Mount Everest in 2024 — a year after a record 17 climbers died on the peak — every step of Conor Coleman's journey to the summit was carefully planned. The then-22-year-old Perth ...

The Mount David Summit is Bates’ annual campus-wide celebration of student academic achievement. The Summit highlights undergraduate research; student creative work in art, dance, theater, music and ...

On 25 May 1955, Joe Brown and George Band, members of a British expedition, made history by becoming the first climbers to summit Mt. Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak. Seventy years ...

Ennis has tried twice to summit Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, and fallen short both times. She plans to try again this year. She and Bittenbender have left the door open for a ...