With the start of the spring climbing season, preparations are in full swing to smoothly manage expeditions on various mountains, including Mt. Everest, the world’s highest peak.

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and ... It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow ...

Lhotse, on the other hand ... The pilot is also clear that his goal is the jump, not the climb. “A weather window for a wingsuit jump is not as simple as a summit window,” says Howell.

An unsupported attempt on Makalu and an 83-year-old on Annapurna I are two of the more unusual Himalayan expeditions this ...

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and is an unavoidable part of the traditional southeast route up Everest. Camp III sits about halfway up this ascending wall of ...

Join an unforgettable excursion that brings together Nepal’s finest hiking routes and height ascents. Scale Island height, ...

A nearby spot on the summit ridge of Lhotse is suitable, but you can only reach it by climbing the normal route on the mountain until around 8,000m, then veering off toward one of three points on ...

At the end of December a Japanese expedition led by Osamu Tanabe managed to climb the south Fasce of Lhotse (8516m) in winter, but turned back 40m short of the summit. Many expeditions are in the ...

sharing the highly ambitious goal of completing the coveted Everest - Lhotse traverse without supplementary oxygen: 41-year-old Romanian Horia Colibasanu and 53-year-old Slovak Peter Hamor who hope to ...

K Expeditions will fix the ropes from Camp 2 to the summit of Everest. Owner Lakpa Sherpa spoke to ExplorersWeb about the ...

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, an Austrian-born mountaineer, became the first woman to climb the world's 14 highest peaks without ...