"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 ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Just when Nepal’s climbing industry was recovering from last year’s deadly avalanche on Mount Everest, another avalanche triggered by last month’s earthquake killed 19 people, ...
The story that reporter Shane Galvin describes in the New York Post doesn’t sound like a mountaineering mishap so much as a slow-motion disaster that multiple people saw coming and nobody stopped.