Aconcagua is the highest peak in both the western and southern hemispheres, and has the second-highest prominence of any peak in the world. This ...

Lawmaker Al Carns and three ex-special forces pals want to summit the world's tallest mountain just four days after leaving ...

Beyond four decades of memories and a new route up, Skip Horner left another legacy on Kilimanjaro: 20 pairs of boots for ...

Climbing teams worldwide have flocked to the mecca of mountaineering—the Himalayas, home to the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks. Expeditions are working their way up ...

Forest Ranger Corenne Black has hiked more than 1,000 peaks around the world and still has a lengthy to-do list.

Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano straddling the border of North Korea and China, is the highest peak on the Korean peninsula and lies at the heart of North Korea’s foundation myth.

A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the ...

Erik Weihenmayer, renowned for being the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, will speak at the University of Arizona's Commencement on May 16. Known for ...

Czech climbers Leopold Sulovsky and Josef Lukas have climbed a new route up the West Face of Aconcagua, at 6962m the highest mountain in South America. Details at present are few and far between, but ...

In 2012 he required 10 days to ascend the 5895m of Mt. Kilimanjaro. the highest mountain in Africa, while in February 2016 he admired the South American continent from it’s highest vantage point, ...