Mountains have shaped my life. On a trip to Washington State as a high-school student, I visited Mount Rainier; years later that mountain and its inspiring presence on our campus horizon helped draw ...

In the spring of 1950, a group of elite French climbers set out into the mountainous terrain of northern Nepal. Up until this point, of the 14 peaks in the world that stand taller than 8,000 meters, ...

ANNAPURNA (316 pp.)—Maurice Herzog—Dutton ($5). “How wonderful life would now become! What an inconceivable experience it is to attain one’s ideal and, at the very same moment, to fulfill oneself. I ...

Sixty-nine years ago today, the pioneering French alpinist and ski instructor Louis Lachenal died in a crevasse in the Alps. Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in the world to summit an ...

WELCOME BACK: Nepal's Prime Minister Mohan Shumsher Rana in a jewel-bedecked crown welcomed Maurice Herzog at Singha Darbar after his expeiditon's first ascent of an 8,000m peak in 1950. Herzog had to ...

PARIS (AP) — France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit — the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went ...

PARIS -- France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit -- the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went on ...

Annapurna is a dangerous and difficult climb, and the avalanche-prone Himalayan peak has a higher death rate than Everest - Copyright AFP/File PRAKASH MATHEMA ...

French climber Vadium Druelle was rescued after falling into a crevasse on Annapurna in the Himalayas. He was transported via ...

Two avalanches cascaded down Annapurna hitting an Italian mountaineer and five Sherpas, which ended their winter expedition.