Himalaya

More Ama Dablam Summits

Again, summits are piling up, as climbers head up...

Skiing Nepal and Pakistan: A New Winter Trend?

At least two expeditions are preparing to carve new...

Summit Day on Ama Dablam

For the few who have been lucky enough to...

Pandemic Helps Ladakh’s Snow Leopards

  In the last few years, Ladakh has been in...

Nepal’s Highway to Everest: Good or Bad?

"Nepal Building a Highway to Everest". The headline that...

Teams Progress on Ama Dablam

Lakpa Dendi Sherpa and Gesman Tamang from Seven Summit...

The New Alpinism: Sani Pakush

The old days when 8,000m was a reliable yardstick...

Nepalis Summit Baruntse!

It's almost hard to believe during this somber year,...

Manaslu Summited

The Bahraini expedition reached the summit of Manaslu at...

Nepal Changes Its Mind Again

Just hours after Nepal announced that as of October...

K6 Summit Tomorrow, Bahrainis in Manaslu Base Camp

Although Colin Haley abandoned the K6 expedition last week,...

First Summit of 2020 in Nepal, Death and Rescue in Pakistan

Bahrain's Royal Prince Sheik Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa...

Weekend Warm-Up: UFO Life

This documentary has it all: Messner, Scott, UFOs, broken...

Cho Oyu Success, Pakistan Peaks and an Expedition to Winter K2!

The Chinese expedition on Cho Oyu summited earlier today....

Bahrainis Start Toward Lobuche, Climbers on Baruntse and K6

After some days in Kathmandu, waiting out the quarantine...

Ang Rita Dies at 72

Ang Rita was the second Sherpa after Tenzing Norgay...

Interview with Felix Berg, Part II

Yesterday, we ran the first part of an interview...

Interview with Felix Berg about Shimshal First Ascents and More, Part I

Just when it seemed that no foreign expeditions would...

Colin Haley on K6, Nepal Issues Permits Again, and More

In a last-minute decision, Colin Haley, an Italian-American who...

Book Review: Winter 8000

It's difficult to describe what is like to climb...

More Teams Heading to Pakistan — and Manaslu

Although it may be hard to believe in this...

Himalayan News: Second Summit in Shimshal, Nepal Closes Again

Three days was all Felix Berg and his SummitClimb...

Trail Maps of the Indian Himalaya

Peter Van Geit had planned spend six months this...

Pakistan Update: Germans Summit Unclimbed Peak

Great news just in from Pakistan: German Felix Berg,...

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