The true winter climbing season begins on December 21 - the first day of the astronomical winter, and three Himalayan teams ...

Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck talks about his fast and impressive solo ascent up the South Face of Annapurna South (8091m, Nepal, Himalaya) that on 8 and 9 October 2013 enabled him to make the first ...

The rarely-climbed Mount Gurja sits in Nepal's Annapurna region, next to avalanche-prone Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh highest mountain. According to the Himalayan Database, no-one has stood on ...

The bodies of nine climbers who died when a violent snowstorm destroyed their camp on a Himalayan peak in Nepal ... climbed Mount Gurja sits in Nepal's Annapurna region, next to avalanche-prone ...

Steck's sheer talent, professionalism and punishing training regime have just taken high altitude climbing to a new level. Annapurna has played a major part in the advancement of Himalayan climbing: ...

The Annapurna region in north-central Nepal is home to towering Himalayan peaks, sweeping valleys, ancient villages and some of the country’s best multi-day hiking trails.

Switzerland’s Ueli Steck talks to swissinfo.ch after his record-breaking solo climb of Annapurna 1, one of the Himalaya´s most dangerous 8,000-metre peaks. The "Swiss Machine" accomplished the ...

A latest study by researchers from Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), indicates ...