With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the winter climbing season in the Himalayas officially ends. The pristine mountain range will enjoy a respite from human ...

The second, or fall, climbing season in the Himalaya will soon end. Deep winter will soon envelope the highest mountains in the world rendering these giants unclimbable. Several expeditions have set ...

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The Himalayan Mountain Range offers some of the most dramatic landscapes on Earth, where winding roads carve their way ...

H igh-altitude climbing in the cold amid rocky terrain is not the stuff of dreams for most of us. But Gant Yasanayake of Queen Creek took it in his stride, literally, when he completed a trek in the ...

Nepal's trusted adventure travel specialist introduces professionally guided high-altitude peak climbing packages. Our ...

Twin brothers are climbing a mountain in the Himalayas, one dressed in modern clothing, the other in a replica outfit worn and kit used by British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Comyn Sandy ...

As the sun dips below the horizon, the Himalayas glow in shades of orange and violet, an otherworldly welcome to the roof of the world. This is Nepal’s Langtang Valley, where glaciers and silence ...