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The climbing expedition teams seeking to summit Himalayan peaks this winter season are currently acclimatizing in the Khumbu Valley, with Ama Dablam (22,349 feet) serving as a warm-up peak for their 8 ...

The second, or fall, climbing season in the Himalaya will soon end. Deep winter will soon envelope the highest mountains in the world rendering these giants unclimbable. Several expeditions have set ...

Home to countless 6-thousanders and a few 7-thousanders, Uttarakhand is truly a paradise for mountaineers constantly seeking fresh challenges and conquests. The state proudly shelters India’s highest ...

The spring climbing season in Nepal is just a few weeks old, and mountaineers are already reaching the top of the world’s highest peaks. On April 30, a team of 13 Chinese climbers reached the summit ...

A woman who was born in Sonora, grew up in Groveland and Yosemite Valley, and has extensive rock climbing and mountaineering experience in California and Alaska is traveling to the Himalayas last week ...

When the sun rose on the morning of October 5, climbers Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak sat perched on a tiny rock ledge at 21,000 feet, high on the flanks of the 22,949-foot Himalayan peak Chaukhamba ...