The Mount Everest Season Begins The spring climbing season will begin in the next several weeks in the Himalayas – including teams headed to Mount Everest. The ...

In 1970, the first all-female team summited Denali. The new book "Thirty Below" by Cassidy Randall tells this forgotten story ...

From world-class slopes and Nordic skiing to exceptional dining and cosy alpine chalets, Val D’Isère caters for serious ...

The Sherpa team in charge of opening a route through Everest's Khumbu Icefall is about to begin their annual high-risk job. A team of eight Sherpa climbers and a small camp staff left Namche ...

KATHMANDU: With the start of main climbing season, an eight-member team of icefall doctors today left for the Mt Everest base camp from Namche Bazaar to fix a climbing route up to Camp II in the ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted ...

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden. By Jennifer Howard Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new ...

Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States. Haley Mlotek’s new book provides neither catharsis nor remedies for heartache ...