Mount Elbrus has two main routes: the South Route and the North Route. The South Route is more popular as it has better facilities and easier access. Most climbers start from the south base camp. ...

Mountains have a magnetic pull, some attract climbers with their beauty, some with the challenges, and others simply because ...

Balkaria, a southern Russian republic known for towering peaks and alpine valleys. This footage captures rugged ridges, ...

Steve Stevens still doesn’t have an answer to a question he was first asked in August, right after he’d finished climbing Mount Elbrus.

Jeff Glasbrenner completed the Seven Summits, becoming what many say is the first below-the-knee amputee in the United States ...

A former Gurkha who became the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Everest is closing in on a mammoth challenge to ...

Forty years ago, Dick Bass became the first person credited with reaching the tallest point on the world’s seven continents.

Two British explorers have put George Mallory's 1920s Everest kit to the ultimate test by wearing it up a Himalayan mountain. Identical twins Hugo and Ross Turner, 37, summited Nepal's 21,250–feet ...

When Mississippi State University alumnus Steve “Duke” Pigott took his final steps onto the summit of Mount Everest this past ...

Climate change is altering summits of the tallest ice-capped mountains in the contiguous United States. For the last century, there have been five ice-capped summits in the contiguous United States, ...

Altitude sickness is another threat Lyubova emphasizes as particularly important, and she herself suffered from a form of it ...

At 17, Kaamya Karthikeyan became the world’s youngest woman to complete the Seven Summits — and she’s training for the South Pole now. What began as a little girl’s question has become a decade-long ...