A 40-year veteran trainer shares 5 morning exercises that restore stair-climbing power and all-day energy after 55.

The Department of Tourism has issued Everest climbing permits to 360 individuals as of Friday, compared with 331 during the ...

Media is asked to save the date for the American Lung Association’s Fight For Air Climb Hartford. The family-friendly event ...

After a mountaineering chronicler found false summits, some mountaineers are returning to the top to update the record.

Kristin Harila, who holds the speed record on the 8000ers, will attempt the so-called Everest Triple Crown this spring as a ...

When Zhang Liang finally reached the summit of the Mount Denali in Alaska, the highest peak in North America, the 54-year-old ...

America doffs its hat to one of its greatest modern outdoorsmen: the first among our countrymen to conquer the two highest ...

Jim Whittaker, a Seattle born and raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to ...

Whittaker took up climbing as a Boy Scout, and his ascent of the world’s highest mountain turned the shy Seattle man into an ...

As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when ...

Jim Whittaker died Tuesday in Port Townsend. The legendary Washington mountaineer made history in 1963 as the first American ...

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