In Part 2 of our interview series with filmmaker Werner Herzog, we examine his close calls with death, the existence of a ...

A man has been found guilty of grossly negligent manslaughter after leaving his girlfriend, who was “galaxies” behind him in terms of climbing experience, to freeze to death on Austria’s tallest ...

Khafiz al Kicok summited K2 – located on the Karakoram Mountain Range on the border of Pakistan and China – on July 27, 2023.

A climber accused of leaving his girlfriend to freeze to death at the top of Austria’s highest peak has blamed her for telling him to leave and get help. Thomas Plamberger, 37, is standing trial for ...

A man accused of leaving his girlfriend to freeze to death on Austria’s tallest mountain went on trial on Thursday in a case that could have major implications for mountain climbers and how liable ...

Two people were rescued from Longs Peak after spending a night on the 14,259-foot mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park. The two men, ages 47 and 50, contacted park rangers late at night Feb. 6 to ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — An avalanche in Slovakia’s High Tatras mountain range killed two Hungarians, the country’s mountain rescue service said Friday. It said the two were male climbers age 38 ...

In 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler did something that both scientists and other mountaineers considered impossible: they climbed Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen. After ...

A mountain climber who died after a 300-foot fall on Mount Hood Sunday has been identified as a 30-year-old man from Portland. Thomas Nathan Hostetler was climbing near the Devil’s Kitchen Area, a ...

A climber died after falling about 300 feet on Mount Hood on Sunday, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said. Witnesses called 911 at about 9:45 a.m. after seeing the climber fall near Devil’s ...