カテゴリー: Mountaineering
Noel Hanna died during descent of world’s 10th highest mountain, say expedition organisersA Northern Irish climber has died and an Indian climber is missing after falling into a crevasse in separate incidents on Mount Annapurna, the world’s 10th highes…
Indian air force searches for remainder of group consisting of 34 mountaineering trainees and seven instructorsAt least four people died and several others were missing in the Indian Himalayas after a group of 41 mountaineers was hit by an avalanche on…
Friends and family fly in and Buddhist monks light pyre at funeral in Nepal of extreme skierA famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at…
Nelson, 49, fell down narrow slope on ski back to camp after scaling Nepali peak of Manaslu with partnerThe body of the renowned US big-mountain skier Hilaree Nelson was found on Wednesday morning after she fell down a narrow 5,000ft slope during a tre…
Trek organiser says the US climber had an accident on Monday as bad weather hampers rescue effortsThe renowned US big-mountain skier Hilaree Nelson has gone missing on a trek in the Himalayas after apparently falling into a 2,000ft crevasse.Nelson and …
The two men were at the end of a three-day trip in The Remarkables above Queenstown when they triggered an avalancheTwo climbers who were buried by an avalanche and then caught in a blizzard atop one of New Zealand’s most famous mountain ranges survive…
The bodies of two mountaineers, Eakin and Canadian man Richard Cartier, found on the world’s second-highest mountain in PakistanFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcas…
The group of 10 people, including nine from UK, managed to take shelter when avalanche struckTen people, including nine Britons, are reported to have survived after a huge avalanche swept over them in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan.Footage uploa…
Fifty-two-year-old used customary route up 8,850-metre mountain while leading 10 other climbersA Nepali sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for a record 26th time, breaking his own previous record set last year, a government official says. Kami Rita Sherpa…
The 52-year-old man collapsed in the final stages of climbing the world’s third highest mountainAn Indian climber died has during a summit push on Mount Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain, an official said.The death is the third to be rep…
Eliza Kubarska’s documentary follows the plight of the Nepalis expected to take huge risks to aid western leisure pursuitsLike Jennifer Peedom’s 2015 film, Sherpa, this climbing documentary is more interested in the Nepali ethnic group than the western…
30 March 1922: Two British climbers return from the summit in ‘splendid condition’ despite losing all of their equipment and food on the mountainTokyo, 21 MarchMajor Orde-Lees, the parachute expert and Antarctic explorer, and Mr H Crisp, both of the Br…
Gemstones worth €300,000 shared between Mont Blanc climber and authorities as man praised for handing discovery to police in 2013A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France’s Mont Blanc has finally been…
Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn’t so lucky. Now the mountain has given up some of its secretsWhen mountaineer Chris Hill found a backpack with an old camera in it on the Hooker Glacier …
Allen’s climbing partners were rescued from world’s second highest mountainA Scottish climber has died in an avalanche on K2 as he attempted to take a new route to the summit.Rick Allen was attempting to climb the world’s second highest mountain to rai…