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Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, shut down for the season as large winter storms created a 'recipe of disaster.' ...

French alpinists Benjamin Védrines and Nicolas Jean have achieved the coveted first ascent of Jannu East (7,468m), one of the last major unclimbed peaks in the Himalayas, via a challenging new route ...

Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker's alpine-style 1976 ascent of Changabang's ‘West Wall’ changed Himalayan mountaineering forever ...

Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak were perched high on the snowy face of a Himalayan mountain when disaster struck their quest to become the first to summit its peak. At more than 6,000 meters (about 20 ...

From 22 August to 26 September a small team of four Slovenian women comprised of Ana Baumgartner, Urša Kešar, Anja Petek and Patricija Verdev climbed four new routes in the Indian Himalaya. These ...

Highland Park native Alex Pancoe, who made headlines for his mountain climbing and fundraising as a cancer survivor, died Sunday climbing the fifth-highest mountain in the world, leaving his young ...

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