Cecily Wong isn't your typical 8,000-meter aspirant; she's a journalist, a struggling one, whose sole claim to fame comes from an article (delightfully entitled "Failure to Rise") chronicling her ...

After bagging 59 of Colorado’s 14ers in a single winter season and setting the fastest known time over the Mosquito and Tenmile mountain ranges, Breckenridge mountain athlete Christopher Fisher set ...

On September 20, Chris Warner summited Manaslu (26,781 feet), the eighth highest mountain in the world and his fifth 8,000er of 2023. The 58-year-old Marylander is now the second American to summit ...

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s 7,000-meter (22,965 ft) peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at reducing ...

The world’s 14 highest mountains all rise from the Himalaya in Tibet and Nepal – the iconic 8,000-meter peaks, eight of which reside in Nepal. Now, Nepal’s Department of Tourism seeks to alter ...