On a trip to Wyoming, a novice learns to climb a frozen waterfall, an activity that takes focus, fearlessness and a good ice ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

"The Last First" is not a story of unabashed glory like those previous climb-every-mountain documentaries. Here the glory is ...

Everyone in the mountain climbing community is intensely aware of the ominous danger of the mountain known as K2. Located in Pakistan, K2 is the second highest mountain in the world just after Mount ...

Madalin Cristea was battling wind on Mont Blanc when he ran into two other hikers near the summit. All three men believe their lives were changed that day.