SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Austrian-born Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner was 23 years old when she reached the summit of her first 8,000-meter peak. “Already from my childhood, it was my big passion to climb ...

Of the 514 people who summited Annapurna I by the end of 2024, only six did so in winter. Twenty-three expeditions have tried to ascend Annapurna I in the coldest season, including 19 without bottled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Sherpa team fixed the last meters of rope to the 8,849m summit of Everest today, the Khumbu Icefall and the Lhotse Face ...

Andrzej Bargiel, a 37-year-old ski mountaineer from Poland, has achieved what no other human has ever managed before. He successfully climbed Mount Everest without bottled oxygen and then skied all ...

Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to climb up and ski down Mount Everest without additional oxygen. The extreme skier from Poland, 37, carried his skis on his back while climbing up the ...

Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited controversy in the mountaineering world. To reach the highest point on Earth ...

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