She fell 900 feet, and a nearby climber witnessed the fall. The peak is particularly difficult. About 1,000 people climbed Capitol last year, and one person died, Athearn said.

The remains of a German mountain climber who went missing 37 years ago while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s iconic Matterhorn have been recovered, as melting glaciers lead to the re ...

One young climber died and another was injured after they fell over the weekend on the United Kingdom's tallest mountain, Ben Nevis in Scotland, rescuers said Monday.

A 63-year-old French climber has died trying to scale the world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga, the expedition's organizer said on Monday, while British media reported a U.K. climber on ...

Indian mountain climber Baljeet Kaur, who had been declared missing this week while scaling the world’s tenth highest peak in Nepal, has been found alive, according to officials.. The news of ...

A solo climber was found dead Monday on Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America. Mountaineering rangers from Denali National Park and Preserve found the climber at 17,000 feet of ...

BORREGO SPRINGS — While stranded on a mountain near the western edge of Borrego Springs after sunset last week, 79-year-old Dawes Eddy sat on a rock in the cold and darkness for aro… ...

A mountain climber had to be rescued from Mt. Fuji twice in the space of a week after he returned to the same spot days later to retrieve his lost phone. The 27-year-old mountaineer, ...

The Denali National Park and Preserve said that one mountain climber with hypothermia was rescued and transported to the hospital in 'critical' condition. By. Kimberlee Speakman.

In 1923, when asked why he wanted to scale Mt. Everest, British climber George Mallory famously answered, “Because it’s there.” That existential response might also help explain the life ...

Alex was an accomplished mountain climber and Northwestern University graduate who had scaled Everest and Denali, all in an effort to raise money for Lurie Children's Hospital and cancer research.