This week, The Himalayan Database has updated its list of spring 2025 summits in Nepal. We examine the current trends.

At 8:15 a.m. in Nepal, Kami Rita Sherpa stood on top of Everest for the 21st time. He tied a record held by Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa. Kami Rita, 47, is a longtime guide with Alpine Ascents, ...

Bayfield's Lori Schneider and her climbing companions have left Camp 4 for their bid to reach the 29,035-foot-high summit of Mount Everest. Schneider and the other clients Alpine Ascents International ...

We have received and published the following open letter entitled 'Alpine sport climbs ground-up first ascents: an art of climbing sportsmanship at risk of trivialisation'. Promoted by Michel Piola, ...

The Catalan climbers Bru Busom and Marc Toralles have made a coveted first ascent of Siula Grande's (20,485 feet) East Face in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Their route, Anima de corall (5.12a A3 AI ...

These two projects for Colorado Mountain College provide student services and athletic spaces at its Spring Valley Campus in Glenwood Springs. Design for the Alpine Ascent Center presented a challenge ...

This will be the 19-year-old Sherpa's second attempt and Moro's seventh. Moro insists that no 8,000m has ever been climbed in ...

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — A Washington state man who was trying to summit Mount Rainier this week collapsed and died near the top of the mountain in the national park, officials said.