Um Hong-gil, the world's first mountain climber to complete the 16th Himalayan ranks, will appear in 'Ask Anything'.In the ...

“Climb with us.” That was the headline on a recent Utah Jazz email sent far and wide, meant to sell season tickets for the coming NBA slog. And that word “climb” caught my attention. That’s what the ...

Kami Rita first summited Everest in 1994, when he was 24 years old. He’s climbed the towering mountain nearly every year since then—at least once, sometimes twice, per NPR’s Bill Chappell ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for ...

At an altitude of over 8,200 meters on the flanks of K2, extreme mountaineer Kristin Harila finds a high-altitude porter who has fallen. He is hanging upside down from a fixed rope and fighting for ...

Kami Rita Sherpa first climbed to the top of the world's highest mountain in 1994. He has climbed Everest nearly every year since the 1990s — sometimes more than once in a single season.

Famed Sherpa mountain guide climbs Mount Everest for 31st time, ... The 55-year-old reached the 8,849-metre ... and I didn’t attend school due to our weak financial position.

After 2010, we saw a rapid shift. Today, Nepali climbers dominate. Which is, of course, only right as we are in Nepal,” she explains. Something which would have been unfathomable in the times of ...

Sherpa’s first summit of Mount Everest was as a 26-year-old on May 18, 2000, and her 10th was May 12, 2022. “I grew up in the Sherpa culture and I never went to school because only boys were ...

KATHMANDU – Eighteen-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Shishapangma in Tibet, China, on Oct 9 morning, thus becoming the youngest person in the world to reach the summits of ...

Last fall, Nima Rinji Sherpa, then 17, was in Tibet preparing to ascend Mount Shishapangma, the world’s 14th highest mountain. He knew reaching its 26,335-foot, or 8,027-meter, summit would ...