Despite its early fame, Annapurna I has a grim climbing record, with a fatality-to-summit ratio of over 30%, making it one of the most perilous peaks. The mountain’s climbing history began with ...

We remember Alex Lowe, one of the best alpinists of the 1990s. Known as the Lungs With Legs because of his strength at ...

A total of 68 people had climbed the 8,091-meter-high Annapurna Himal at the same time on Friday. The world's tenth-highest mountain, considered to be the toughest, has so far been climbed by only ...

Last Thursday 24 October the French guides Yannick Graziani and Stephane Benoist are reported to have climbed the south face of Annapurna, repeating the route climbed by Ueli Steck on 9 October. This ...

Inevitably the passage of time leads to greater and greater achievements. Steck's sheer talent, professionalism and punishing training regime have just taken high altitude climbing to a new level.

Inevitably the passage of time leads to greater and greater achievements. Steck's sheer talent, professionalism and punishing training regime have just taken high altitude climbing to a new level.

Had Humar perhaps climbed the 1988 line ascended by Polish mountaineers Jerzy Kukuczka and Artur Hajzer (authors, as it happens, of the first winter ascent of Annapurna in 1987) up the righthand side ...

Climbing Update The Winter Climbing Season begins Saturday, December 21, with the solstice and the official start of winter. The climbing exped ...

The trio attempting winter Manaslu alpine style are taking the definition of a winter climb so seriously that they're even ...

Everest, Annapurna, and Manaslu recently reported ... as part of his preparations. Kobusch has been climbing and acclimatizing in central Nepal and recently arrived in the Khumbu to stage ...