Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks — all located in the Himalayas — has long represented the ultimate objective in alpinism. From K2 to Annapurna, these mountains present some of the toughest ...

Nirmal Purja has made headlines again, this time not for a mountaineering achievement but for allegedly breaking the rules. “Most of the climbers from an 11-member team of Lingtren Peak expedition of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Michelle Dvorak and British climber Fay Manners were transported to safety by an Indian Air Force helicopter on Oct. 5 ...

An American climber was rescued after she and another alpinist from the U.K. were stranded for two days at more than 20,000 feet in the Himalayan mountains. Michelle Dvorak, 31, and Fay Manners, 37, ...

LUCKNOW, India — American and British climbers have been rescued after being stranded for three days on a mountain in India’s Himalayan north. Fay Jane Manners from the United Kingdom and Michelle ...

Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak were perched high on the snowy face of a Himalayan mountain when disaster struck their quest to become the first to summit its peak. At more than 6,000 meters (about 20 ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Teams have rescued two mountain climbers who were trapped 20,000 feet high in the Himalayas for two days after a rope that was being used to hoist their provisions snapped. Fay Manners, ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An avalanche swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal on Monday and killed five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said. Armed Police Force spokesperson ...

At the Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC), climbers gathered on fixed days. Photos of expeditions from home and abroad were screened on a big screen. Participants learned about trekking ...

LOOK UP: A fore-shortened view of Lhotse's imposing South Face from the summit of Island Peak. Photo: EDWARD MORGAN Last spring, I climbed a couple of easy 6,000ers in Nepal with Howard Lister. When ...

American Michelle Dvorak and British climber Fay Manners were transported to safety by an Indian Air Force helicopter on Oct. 5 Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been ...