Rhys Fitzgerald got to the top of one Himalayan mountain as a warm-up for the world's highest peak. Slovak mountaineer Ondrej Huserka fell while descending the Lantang Lirung mountain in Nepal.

The Inner Himalaya is distinguished by its snow and ice clad peaks. These peaks border plateaus, and in turn form the southern edge of Tibet. Tibet, a vast area of plains, mountains and gorges ...

Mount Everest is perhaps the most well-known mountain in the world. It has the highest peak above sea level at 8,848 metres. Mount Everest is part of the Himalayan mountain range in Asia where ...

"When I climbed Lhotse, I realised that reaching the peak of this mountain wasn’t enough. “I know it will be a lot of hard work, but I am up for the challenge. Being on the mountains has ...

The Himalaya, the highest mountain range in the world, stretches across Nepal, India, Bhutan, China, and Pakistan. The range frames the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks - the highest mountains in the ...

This year, several teams went to the Himalayas to attempt winter ascents on Mt. Everest, Manaslu, Makalu and Annapurna. Winter Ascents of Himalayan peaks present ... on the mountain hoping for ...

Yury Koshelenko and Aleksei Lonchinskii at the first bivouac while making the first ascent of Phungi Peak (6538 m), Himalaya, Nepal Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, ...