A Nepali climber has set the world record scaling all 14 mountains above 8,000 metres in just over six months. Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja, 36, along with his team of Project Possible, successfully stood atop ...

There's a particular kind of stillness in the idea of a summit so high that the air itself can't sustain human life. The ...

Four Bulgarians managed to climb the Himalaya eight-thousander Gasherbrum-1 or the so called Hidden peak (8069 m above sea-level). Nikolay Petkov, Doychin Boyanov, Boyan Petrov, and Nikolay Valkov ...

Sirbaz Khan has written a new chapter in the history of Pakistani mountaineering. He has become the first Pakistani to conquer all 14 peaks in the world that are over 8,000 metres high. In his latest ...

ISLAMABAD: Renowned mountaineer Naila Kiani, only Pakistani woman climber to have summited 11 of the world’s 14 eight-thousander peaks, on Wednesday began her summit push to ascend Kanchenjunga (8,586 ...

On October 3, Bulgarian climber Atanas Skatov summited Dhaulagiri (8,176 m), which the 7th highest mountain in the world, BNT reported. This is the tenth eighth-thousander the 41-year-old Bulgarian ...

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Bangladeshi mountaineers Babar Ali and Tanvir Ahmed have successfully scaled Mount Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest peak. They reached the summit early on Friday morning, accompanied by guides Bire ...

An oxygen-free climb to an eight-thousander is almost suicide. The Ukrainian mountaineer, who decided to test the limits of her capabilities, hopes for the best. Antonina Samoilova is the first ...

Climbing her second eight-thousander within a fortnight, Baljeet Kaur, a mountaineer from Solan in Himachal Pradesh, reached the summit of Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world at ...

A Pakistani couple, Ahmed and Anum Uzair, reached the summit of Mount Manaslu, the eighth-highest mountain in the world, on Sunday. They have become the first couple from the country to achieve the ...