Nepal's Department of Tourism recently added six subpeaks to its 8,000m peaks’ list. We explore the climbing history of ...

Nepal's Department of Tourism is determined to enlarge its list of 8,000m peaks by adding six secondary summits on ...

If they succeed, Kangchenjunga will be the fourth 8,000 ... The Slovak-Italian climbing team has not updated since May 10, ...

Vittoria Sella scaled many tall peaks, including Kangchenjunga and K2, and took some of the greatest photographs ever of the ...

Climbing the 8,000-meter peaks constitutes ... follow with one death for every four summiteers, and Dhaulagiri and Kangchenjunga account for one death for every six successful climbers.

Americans Jackson Marvell, Matt Cornell, and Alan Rousseau also won for their alpine-style climb of the formidable 2,700m north face of Jannu in Nepal's Kangchenjunga region. Finally, three young ...

The alpinist from Vicenza reached the summit on 20 May, without supplementary oxygen, and is now safely back in Base Camp along with climbing companions Annalisa Fioretti and Silvano Forgiarini. The ...

The remaining 8000m peaks (Kangchenjunga, Annapurna and Makalu) are still there and, as Nives states, if God wants them to, they will climb them. In the meantime their personal story has been enriched ...

In 1937, an expedition organised by C R Cooke and including Sir John Hunt and his wife, tried to reach the summit via the North Col between Kangchenjunga and the Twins. When this also failed, Hunt ...