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The second, or fall, climbing season in the Himalaya will soon end. Deep winter will soon envelope the highest mountains in the world rendering these giants unclimbable. Several expeditions have set ...

Climbing season in the Himalayas predominately takes place just twice per year when the Jetstream subsides above the Himalayan sky. The Himalaya, the highest mountain range in the world, stretches ...

Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu ...

(NEW YORK) — Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most difficult feats known to humankind, but the treacherous expedition is getting even more challenging due to climate change, according to experts.

High in the Himalayas, chaos defined this autumn climbing season. More than three weeks before the climbing season was set to end, Nepali authorities issued repeated alerts urging tourists to descend ...

One of Nepal's most famous female mountaineers has died in a climbing accident in the Himalayas. Thirty-two-year-old Pemba Doma Sherpa fell from a height of about 8,000 metres while descending the ...