Climbing

A profile on Wanda Rutkiewicz, the third woman to reach Everest's summit and one of the most accomplished mountaineers in history.

"If you were living in Africa three million years ago...without any means of defense, you'd better be able get up in a tree when the sun goes down."

It was not immediately clear whether the statue climber and Abolish ICE protesters were linked.

A city holds it breath as the world awaits the fate of one wily raccoon.

Geologists from around the world have disputed the mammoth mountain's height, creating consequences for Nepal.

Elisabeth Revol and Tomek Mackiewicz were believed to have reached the summit of Pakistan's Nanga Parbat—the ninth-highest mountain in the world—before struggling to make their way down the 26,600-foot peak.

For years, climbers have written about losing their grip on reality as they climb towards the stratosphere.

The death toll on the world's highest mountain has risen to 10 in the past month.

The calls comes after an 85-year-old man had a heart attack on the mountain side and died.

Climbing skyscrapers with suction cups is not mission impossible; it's science.

A Dutch man and an Australian woman died while descending from the summit.

Wearing shorts and a t-shirt, Sarah Albone had to be rescued after developing hypothermia.

The tallest mountain in the UK grew by a metre in the last 65 years.

The avalanche occurred around noon local time on the Dome de Neige des Ecrins mountain.

The peak of the Mirror Wall is four times the height of the London Shard skyscraper.

"I climb because a mountain pulls you in. It draws you to it, just like a drug. It really is like an addiction."

A hardened mountaineer explains the mind-bogglingly difficult climb the two young men faced on El Capitan, Yosemite.

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson talk about their historic Yosemite climb, and ask: "What's your Dawn Wall?"

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson became the first ever to free climb Dawn Wall when they topped out Wednesday.