The full 31-minute video of Andrzej Bargiel descending Mount Everest is harrowing stuff, writes Frederick Dreier, and not the ...

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the American Ski Exchange in Vail — weren’t hardcore mountaineers, they did name their ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- They used to say the jet age shrank the world. At a home in Santa Rosa, the internet has crunched it even further. The family of Jon Reiter, a Sonoma County resident now at a Mt ...

Few mountains, if any, have as much prowess for climbers, mountaineers, and skiers as Mount Everest. After all, it is the highest mountain on Earth at 8,849m (29,032 ft.). Summiting Everest is not ...

Skier and mountaineer Jim Morrison has completed the first-ever ski descent of Mt. Everest’s notoriously challenging Hornbein Couloir in a feat National Geographic called “the most audacious ski run ...