Five wounded warriors with a self-described total of four good legs among them are gaining ground in their assault on Alaska's formidable Mount McKinley, North America's tallest peak.

The five soldie

A near-record number of climbers reached the summit of Everest as the season ended on Saturday without a repeat of last week's deadly accidents, which had raised fears of overcrowding on the world's h

A 21-year-old student has become the youngest British woman to reach the summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

Mollie Hughes, from Bristol, and her team made it to the 8,848-metre summit

Climbers have reported seeing another body on Mount Everest, raising the death toll to four for one of the worst days ever on the world's highest mountain.

Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Sh

Three climbers from Germany, South Korea and Canada have died on their descent from the summit of Mount Everest, tour agents and officials said on Monday, with two other mountaineers also missing.

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A 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain.

Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering

A mountaineer from Assam will be trying to scale the highest peak in the world - Mount Everest.

The mountaineer, Pranay Bordoloi, will join a 12-member international team on their mission to climb Mo