We reveal how the crux impacts the overall grade of a route and consider famous examples from climbing history ...

Anything from skiing out a gate at a resort for a quick backcountry lap to a short ski tour for some low-angle pow turns an all-day mission for a specific line can constitute backcountry skiing. But ...

There are at least seven Filipinos, who have reached the summit of Mt. Everest. At 8,848 meters above sea level, Mt. Everest ...

Summit bids have begun in earnest on Annapurna. Annapurna I is the 10th highest mountain in the world, standing at 8,091 meters (26,545 feet) in the Himalayas o ...

Red Bull athlete Will Gadd exudes adventure. He just completed a long-distance paraglide flight to Mt. Assiniboine, where he climbed solo.

Ski mountaineering is effectively the most extreme version of backcountry ski ... the top of the line and actually drop in, you have to climb a section of rock, mixed ice and rock, or do a rappel ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

embracing the challenge of both the climb and the return. Others prefer to snowshoe to the top and take the lift down, opting for a mix of effort and ease. Then there are the extreme athletes who ...

The extreme challenge saw McGuinness ... The celebrities told of the freezing conditions they had to face while tackling the Scottish mountain climb for Comic Relief. "When we got to camp, I fell to ...

On those trips, climbers complete multiple acclimatization hikes up the mountain to adjust to the extreme altitude. “Our type of expedition opens Mount Everest up to people who don’t have ...

Extreme expeditions, intrepid characters and stunning cinematography combine in a collection of short films to be screened in ...