Kailash Parvat, reaching a height of 6,638 meters in the secluded area of Tibet, is far more than merely a mountain. To ...

Climbing techniques have evolved over centuries, often creating controversy and debate. The use of acclimatization methods to expedite expeditions lies at the c ...

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than ...

Furtenbach’s great-uncle Oswald Oelz, an Austrian-Swiss mountaineer, was an expedition doctor on Reinhold Messner’s 1978 ...

Herbert P. Messner OBITUARY Herbert Paul “Herbie” Messner, 77, of Allentown, passed away Thursday, December 26, 2024 at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown. He was the husband of Brenda J ...

"They were mostly climbing books about the likes of Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner and later on, Nick Bullock. I guess that's where the ideas and dreams started. Then in 2013, I quit my ...

To live in the small town of Haines, Alaska, is to live with bears, with roughly one brown bear for every nine human residents. Last winter, a local snowboarder woke a hibernating brown bear in ...