The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot meal or two.

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies ... fix them over crevasses and lay rope to climb up the ice wall. Once the ladders and ropes are set along ...

Vasanthi Cheruveettil, a tailor from Kerala, reached Everest Base Camp without formal training through determination and self-learning. She undertook an intensive four-month training regimen and ...

Dan Meyer arrives at the KJZZ studios with a long, narrow black bag. As we’re getting settled in the studio, he takes a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous ...

“Everest” is based on the true events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster ... you can see these tiny figures trudging up an endless wall of ice, and it really hammers in just how massive ...

Kirk Yetholm, a picturesque village in the Scottish Borders, holds a special place in this history as the endpoint of the ...

Britain’s country paths have been traversed by thousands of pilgrims and hikers over the centuries, but the first official ...

A group of local adventurers recently climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro as part of a fundraising effort to support the San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy. After a seven-day trek, they ...