Mountain Climbing

Go to Source BEND, Oregon — On the mountain, it could happen at any moment — so Bend's J.J. Justman considers himself lucky. In 2006, he escaped death by a minute. In April, he escaped it by a day. The…

Go to Source A STUDENT from Midhurst has set himself the ultimate challenge – scaling one of the highest mountains in the world. Guy Schmidt will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in August to raise money for…

Go to Source I'm just back from the 2014 Arc'teryx Alpine Academy in Chamonix and I'm buzzing, grinning, inspired. Not because Chamonix is ringed with stunning mountains, which it is, or because I've climbed some desperate…

Go to Source Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series by Ulyana Horodyskyj, a geologist who is trying to determine how airborne particles such as soot that settle on massive glaciers affect how fast the ice melts. In…

Go to Source Spaniard Kilian Jornet Bourgada is not your normal Mount McKinley mountaineer, and it's not just because he's been written up in the New York Times Sunday Magazine as the "most dominating endurance athlete of his…

Go to Source I had been flirting with the idea of climbing Mount Rainier in July and tried goading a dozen friends into joining me for a trek to the top of the 14,410-foot peak southeast of Seattle. It's a relatively technical…

Go to Source An Australian man has died from a suspected asthma attack as he was setting out to climb Indonesia's Mount Rinjani volcano. John-Paul Lipscombe, 53, from Cairns, died two kilometres from the entrance…