Balin Miller has started to make a name for himself. Miller, a 23-year-old from Anchorage, has completed a string of hard ice climbs and solo climbs not only here in Alaska but also in Canada and ...

First problem: Renee’s luggage got lost. When she landed in Kathmandu, all her gear and the tools for her leg were somewhere in India. Next problem: Two hours into the trek, she walked too close to ...

Gone are the color-coded plastic holds and the plush gym flooring. Instead, real rock digs into my fingers, my feet scrape ...

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the ...

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the ...

Discover the top 10 tallest mountains in the contiguous U.S., featuring peaks from California, Colorado, and Washington.

A mountaineer, Brent plans to climb Mount Everest in 2020 to raise money for the nonprofit Radiating Hope, which donates cancer therapy equipment to healthcare professionals in underdeveloped ...

A Seattle man died after falling 3,000 feet from a climbing route at Denali National Park in Alaska ... He shared that following the daily grind of his 9-to-5, he would pack up his gear and head to ...

In 1970, Alaskan mountaineer and doctor Grace Hoeman led the first all-women’s attempt to summit Denali — which was, in fact, the first all-female attempt at any of the world’s big peaks.

No, Arlene could not go. Women could not climb Denali, he said. It was impossible. It seemed she wasn’t going to Alaska at all this summer. Denali might be out of her reach forever at this rate.

“You eventually basically climb the mountain twice to summit it once,” Dan said. “There’s so much gear, and it’s so steep that to carry it all at the same time would be debilitating; it would be ...

They were devastated. Nagayama estimated that between $10,000 and $20,000 worth of climbing gear was stolen. “I gave up at the time, like I gave up the expedition,” he said.