The guy from Free Solo is about to climb one of the world’s tallest buildings. Is that foolish?

High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Marco Confortola claimed on July 21 from the summit of Gasherbrum I that he'd climbed all 14 of the 8,000m peaks without ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An injured climber was rescued Tuesday near the summit of Mount Hood. Around 7:15 a.m., the 43-year-old climber attempting to summit tripped in an extremely steep area, known as Old ...

A Colorado climber died shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, his brother said Monday. Christopher ...

"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is threaded with human folly. During the 2020-2021 attempt to climb K2, a ...

SAIJO, Ehime – Straddling Saijo and Kumakogen in Ehime Prefecture, Mt. Ishizuchi is the highest mountain in western Japan, standing at 6,503 feet above sea level. As a rookie reporter who started this ...