Our mountaineering expert takes a look at the life of Kilian Jornet, the record-breaking runner, skier and alpinist who keeps ...

The Hornbein Couloir poses a fantasy ski descent that only two parties have ever attempted. Neither was successful.

Before the era when the world’s tallest peaks could be conquered, mountaineers wrestled with the method and purpose of their ...

Ama Dablam, often referred to as the 'Matterhorn of the Himalayas,' presents one of the most iconic and visually striking peaks in the world of mountaineering.

This makes comparing the greatest sport climbers in history a tad more straightforward than, say, comparing the world’s ...

Today marks the birthday of one of Japan's great climbers, Masatsugu Konishi. After a long career, he disappeared on Manaslu ...

Filip Babicz took advantage of the first alpine ice of the season to open an M7 route on a classic spire in the Mont Blanc ...

After breaking a speed climbing record on Himalayan peak Manaslu, ultra runner Tyler Andrews breaks another climbing record ...

Riccardo Mizio from Ehrwald and Markus Wolf from Berwang succeeded in climbing the 6814-metre-high Ama Dablam in the ...

Yosemite National Park, widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rock climbing has attracted generations of climbers seeking to scale iconic El Capitan and its famous routes. The history of ...

The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGBahn) is the Alpine adventure railway par excellence. The line is 144 km long and leads from Zermatt to Disentis and from Andermatt to Göschenen, covering a difference ...