We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

Shane Boyd, an avid adventurer from Fermanagh, has set his sights on conquering Mount Everest as part of his mission to complete the Seven ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge writes about dangerous walking trips to North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest in "After the North Pole." ...

Hari Budha Magar, an adventurer and disability campaigner, is aiming to become the first double above-knee amputee to climb the Seven Summits.

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India's northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious gathering.

But they have also been used to give mountaineering teams and tourists a shortcut over challenging terrain in the Sagarmatha National Park, home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

Reaching heights of around 620 miles (1,000km) these continent-sized “islands” of rock dwarf anything else found on our ...

Israel began allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return on Monday to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas.

Extreme tourism, where travellers engage in high-risk activities in dangerous and remote locations, is booming. The industry is projected to reach a value of $91 billion by 2030, up from $24.2 billion ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the ...