Of the 514 people who have summited I, only six have done so in winter. This is the story of those six, and of the many ...

Expedition members are back in Base Camp after a successful first round. The rope fixers reached 6,700m. Next time, they will ...

Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in history to summit an 8,000m peak - Annapurna I in 1950. Fourteen mountains in the world rise above 8,000-meters (26,247 feet). The International ...

Everest. K2. Denali. All formidable peaks, but none of them bear the title of ‘World’s Most Deadly Mountain.’ Though climbers ...

In an average year on Annapurna I, for every 3 people that summit, one does not return to base camp alive. A collection of factors lead to the high death toll on the slopes of Annapurna I.

On 28 October Tomasz Humar from Slovenia reportedly carried out a solo ascent of the south Face of Annapurna reaching the South Summit at 8026m, located to the east of the 8091m high main summit. News ...

Alex Txikon Sidelined on Annapurna Elite mountaineer Alex Txikon from Lemoa (Basque Country) has climbed 11 of the 14 8,000-meter peaks – the highest mountains ...

Mingma G Sherpa is the first Nepali mountaineer to climb all 14 peaks above 8,000 metres without using supplemental oxygen.

Switzerland’s Ueli Steck talks to swissinfo.ch after his record-breaking solo climb of Annapurna 1 ... five days after the summit, however I’m still tense. When you spend 28 hours up there ...

First came Chris Bonington's expedition to the south face of Annapurna, with Dougal Haston and Don Whillans reaching the summit after the team had overcome high technical difficulties on the south ...

Moro traveled to the Himalaya again this winter to pursue another summit on Manaslu. It appears members of Txikon’s winter Annapurna team will take a shot at the summit in the coming days.