Laura Dahlmeier did not survive after being hit by falling rocks while climbing in the Karakoram. She was one of the best ...

Today would have been the 104th birthday of renowned French alpinist Lionel Terray. Terray climbed bold routes from the Alps ...

F orget Clint Eastwood dangling from the north face of the Eiger, fighting for his life, in the 1975 questionable classic The Eiger Sanction. There’s an even more action-packed, ...

Initial follow-up drilling at Saddle Zone identifies intersections of near surface multi-gram gold mineralization with up to ...

Mürren, located high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland, is a place that appears to be another world. It stands ...

A hike along Switzerland’s Aletsch offers escape from the summer heat — but comes with a poignant sense of time running out ...

Another former Defender athlete, Joe Anderson, notched the victory in the 5K. The Fitness Sports Distance Project athlete ...

If you’re walking up to the lift ticket window in the morning to buy a lift pass for the same day, something has gone ...

When female mountaineers refer to hostile conditions, it might not be just the rockface they are talking about, writes Roger Cox ...

The hierarchy is beyond dispute now: while Djokovic might represent a fearsome proposition for almost anybody on tour, he has ...

In the 1990 All-Ireland final, Fitzgibbon scored two in the space of 90 seconds. Dr Con Murphy, who has been involved with ...