In the note left in the summit registry, King describes the ... prompted a large-scale search and rescue effort in the high mountain area, but after 11 days of intense searching, the National ...

According to the Mount Washington Observatory, the high temperature there on Tuesday was 13 degrees below zero. Tuesday's high is the coldest daily high temperature recorded on the summit since Feb.

The price to climb Mount Everest will soon increase for the first time in nearly a decade, as Nepal announces a sharp mark-up ...

The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto ... that McDonnell started to hike back up the mountain (he may have been suffering from high altitude sickness at this point and was ...