Mountaineering

Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions

In his latest video, Ben Ayers takes us inside the topsy-turvy world of air travel in Nepal’s Mount Everest region

The kids of the Mountaineers Adventure Club are tackling serious peaks—all between classes and homework

In his latest video dispatch, Ben Ayers shows the boots, parkas, sleeping bags, and other crucial gear he will use during the trek to Everest Base Camp

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown Kathmandu

Listen to Melissa Arnot Reid share her story firsthand at the Outside Festival in Denver May 31-June 1.

Ben Ayers takes a tour of the Astrek Complex in downtown Kathmandu, home of gear shops, cafes, and an outdoor climbing wall

The Norwegian mountaineer discusses her ongoing search for Tenjen “Lama” Sherpa and Gina Rzucidlo, her mixed feelings on speed records, and the dark side of Internet fame

Outside will be stationed in Nepal’s Mount Everest Base Camp for the 2025 spring climbing season. Here is your destination for all the news from the Himalayas.

Climbing season is about to start on the world's highest peak, and Outside is headed to Base Camp to report on these and other stories

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he and his clients will inhale xenon gas, which he says helps with acclimatization.

The new book "Thirty Below" tells the tale

New data identifies two key risk factors for high-altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of death on the highest mountain in the Americas

On February 16, Christina Lustenberger and Gee Pierrel skied the first descent of the Great Couloir on the South Face of Mount Robson

With a child-free week ahead of him, one dad decides to summit as many local peaks as he can. In the end, he learns something about adventure, accomplishment, and himself.

The Nepali climber who summited Mount Everest three times in two weeks has always gone her own way

The Hornbein Couloir poses a fantasy ski descent that only two parties have ever attempted. Neither was successful.

Jenni Lowe founded the nonprofit after the death of her husband Alex Lowe. Now, she’s passing the torch to alpinist Melissa Arnot Reid's charity, the Juniper Fund.

Metcalfe, a 50-year-old doctor from Colorado, recently became the first American woman to ascend all 14 mountains above 8,000 meters. Before completing the record, she battled internal demons over what it means to make history on the peaks.

An adventure is an idea. It doesn't even have to be a good one. Here's a helpful guide to dreaming them up.

A group led by filmmaker Jimmy Chin found the boot of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, the British climber who vanished on Everest alongside George Mallory in 1924. Experts say the mystery involving the duo remains.

Mountaineers Michelle Dvorak and Fay Manners take us inside their harrowing rescue on the side of Chaukhamba III in the Garhwal Himalayas

68-year-old Mick Fowler and 74-year-old Victor Saunders make an odd couple. But their teamwork just yielded yet another striking Karakorum first ascent.

Two American women and two Sherpa guides perished while racing for a record. The tragedy illuminates how the recent rush to climb the world’s highest peaks is driving climbers onto dangerous mountains like never before.

The iconic Swiss peak only sees a ski descent a few times a decade. This team of athletes recounts what it was like to ski off the side of the Toblerone.

Last week a trio of climbers from Malaysia became stranded on Denali in Alaska. Guides and rescuers recount how they spent multiple days trying to save them.

When Eberhard Jurgalski determined that Reinhold Messner narrowly missed a key summit, he told the world. He’s still dealing with the fallout.

Outside spoke with Christina Lustenberger about what it was like to ski the west face of Pakistan’s Great Trango Tower

Every spring, hundreds of hopefuls make the trek to the world’s tallest summit and the surrounding high peaks. This is your base camp for all the news from the Himalayas.

‘Everest, Inc.,’ a new book from veteran outdoor journalist Will Cockrell, documents the mountain’s transformation, first by Western guides and climbers, and now by Sherpas and Nepalis

The renowned guide and climber founded one of the nation’s leading guide services and summitted Mount Rainier over 250 times

Lusti has built a career—and a life—on toughness and a preternatural ability to ski through puckering technical terrain. Her greatest challenge may be learning to let herself be soft.

Mountaineers now must haul their feces back to Base Camp in wag bags. We asked veteran guides how this shift will change life on the world’s highest peak.

The project has turned Townsend into a skilled ski mountaineer. He knows that skill isn't always enough to survive the lines that remain.

Neighbors Jeff Hashimoto and Langton Ernest-Beck dreamed up a crazy summertime challenge: climb Washington’s 100 highest mountains, and link the peaks by bike

China has suspended rescue efforts on the world’s 14th highest peak, ending the search for American Gina Rzucidlo and Nepali Tenjen Lama Sherpa

Two American women vying for the 8000er record and their guides were swept away by the slide on the famed Tibetan peak. One U.S. climber and a Sherpa guide are confirmed dead.

An evolving climbing world has new standards but shouldn’t tarnish historic achievements

Chris Warner’s historic achievement was claimed “just for the fun of it”

Max Lowe made a big splash in 2021 with ‘Torn,’ a documentary about the death of his famous father, alpinist Alex Lowe, and how it shook and shaped his family. These days, he’s forging ahead with ambitious projects—including a new film about the restorative power of climbing—in the next stage of his career.

The official explanation for the fee increase is rather macabre

Whether she’s setting mountain FKTs or working to bring attention to climate change, Hillary Gerardi is a force of nature

The duo completed the 8000-meter peaks in 92 days, breaking Nirmal (Nims) Purja's record by over three months

IFMGA guide Jed Porter walks us through the gear in his ski-mountaineering kit for North America’s highest peak

Visits to one popular Colorado fourteener have declined by more than half since 2020

The story of the deadly avalanche in October 2022 on India’s Draupadi Ka Danda II

Racing against the clock at high altitude takes a special set of skills.

There are two types of mountain athletes in the world

When veteran climber Mark Jenkins came up with a plan to witness a solar spectacle from the summit of a 20,000-foot peak, he had little idea what he was getting himself into

The ultrarunner and endurance skier is open to whatever the mountain gives her—she wants to experience a new adventure and inspire other women to do the same

The iconic film festival is celebrating its 45th year this weekend. Here are the documentaries we’re most excited to watch.

The 2023 death toll on Everest has already reached double digits—with multiple people still missing. And the climbing season isn’t over yet.

Why be stuck behind the masses at popular parks when you can wander some of the nation’s best with barely a soul in sight?

A guide from New Zealand says someone pilfered valuable supplies at Camp IV. Plus, hundreds of climbers are expected to push for the summit this week.

Retired doctor Jonathan Sugarman of Seattle died at Camp II on Monday, May 1

Dad and I had always planned to climb Africa’s tallest peak together, but cancer took away our chance. I knew he wouldn’t want it to take mine, too.

After finding himself in the middle of a disaster on Mount Everest, the mountaineer wanted to be the strongest version of himself

Indian mountaineer Anaug Maloo was stranded in a crevasse for three days, until a team of rescuers overcame improbable odds to save him

A veteran climber is dead, another is missing, and multiple others are lucky to be alive after a tragic few days in the Himalayas

Climbing permits are up, expeditions are welcoming more women, and new technology is changing the timeline for getting to the top. These are some of the storylines we’re following during the 2023 season on Mount Everest.

After close calls in combat zones and on mountaineering expeditions, the journalist is taking a very different kind of journey

When the love of her life died in the mountains, the pro skier learned that navigating loss meant accepting that things will be messy

When the mountain guide was caught in an avalanche, he was sure it was the end. But deep inside himself he discovered the will to live.

A scientist from the University of Colorado explains why the presence of human bacteria on the South Col represents a groundbreaking discovery

After this mother of seven miraculously survived a violent car crash, she found a new purpose in climbing high-altitude peaks

After the enormous earthquake in February, one group of Turkish mountaineers headed east, to help in any way they could

Basque climbers Amaia Agirre and Iker Bilbao were descending the peak when a wet slide swept them into a crevasse

The elite ski mountaineer was struggling mightily on an expedition. To get through it, he would have to get out of his own way.

For an episode of our new podcast, ‘The Daily Rally,’ the professional skier talks about learning to get out of his own way while on an expedition in Alaska

In 1976, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, the daughter of legendary alpinist Willi Unsoeld, died while climbing the massive Indian peak for which she was named. Decades later, friends, family, and surviving expedition members offer insights into what went wrong during this controversial adventure, shedding light on an enigmatic young woman who lived without limits.

The American Alpine Club has chosen a new title for its annual honor, which was previously named after mountaineering pioneers Robert L.H. and Miriam Underhill

The Norwegian mountaineer explains why women deserve equal support on the world’s highest mountains

Expedition leader Philip Henderson takes us inside the first all-Black mission to climb Mount Everest, and explains why the group’s work didn’t end when they returned to Base Camp

When you gotta go, you gotta go. These make it easier no matter where you are.

The Norwegian mountaineer was unable to obtain an entry permit from China to climb Cho Oyu and Shishapangma, putting her two peaks shy of the record

Adventurers Andrea Sansone and Andrew Hamilton trace their relationship back to a chance encounter on one of Colorado’s highest peaks. Now, the two are pushing each other to set speed records on the state’s famed fourteeners.