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The word "Sherpa" turns up constantly in Himalayan climbing news. What is less commonly known outside the climbing world…
Naomi Uemura was born on 12 February 1941 in Kokufu village in the Kinosaki district of Hyōgo Prefecture (now part of th…
Junko Tabei was born on 22 September 1939 in Miharu, a small town in Fukushima Prefecture, the youngest of ten siblings.…
If you walk along the Azusa River from the Kamikōchi bus terminal, sooner or later you come on a small bronze relief set…
Correction, 9 November 2026. Our earlier version incorrectly said that the climbers of 1934 died. Willy Beck and the Löw…
K2 stands 8,611 m above sea level. Only the second highest mountain on Earth, and yet in the climbing community it is fe…
The Matterhorn (4,478 m) is the most famous mountain in the Alps. Standing on the Swiss–Italian border in an almost geom…
11:30 a.m., 29 May 1953. At 8,849 m, on the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, two people stood. A beekeeper from …
8 August 1786. In the town of Chamonix in eastern France, people were peering through telescopes. On the summit of Mont …
