No longer will just any climber with ambition and a permit be able to attempt the world's highest peak-Mount Everest. A new draft law says: Prove yourself first. The 8,848.86-metre Everest is about ...

On Easter Sunday, an Italian helicopter pilot named Simone Moro received word of a SOS call on 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal. Moro told Outside that a Ukrainian climber was suffering from altitude ...

Three members of Italy's elite Lecco Spiders are on their way to repeat Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker's groundbreaking 1976 ...

Five Turkish climbers were descending Russia's Elbrus mountain when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse ...

Ang Dawa Sherpa nearly perished on his first Everest climb because he wasn’t prepared; then he went to school in Nepal for a mountain guide degree. After moving to the US, he wasn’t surprised to find ...

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...

Italian ski instructor Claudio Lanzafame skied the west face of Cima Serodoli (Adamello-Presanella range). Lanzafame’s report ...

Our Everest columnist takes us on a tour of the Astrek Complex in downtown Kathmandu, home of outdoor gear shops and a ...

As it continues to surge in popularity, we take a look at dry tooling, its history and how the pursuit emerged from mixed ...

Mountaineering Ireland have issued an urgent appeal for the public to prepare themselves when going on walking trails, and importantly to stay away from the Mourne Mountains because of fire.

🎫 All in the mind for skimo champion Thibault Anselmet Ski mountaineering is a physically gruelling sport, but it’s the mental game that matters most for France's Thibault Anselmet. The two-time ...