A 74-year-old man was rescued in the Northern Alps in central Japan on Sunday, a week after he suffered a fall and went missing contact, police said. Kiyoyuki Tsutsui of Hiroshima said he ate pieces of chocolate and drank water from mountain runoff while keeping ...
An Indian climber went missing while descending the "death zone" after scaling Mount Everest, officials said Sunday, following the death of two climbers over the past month. Ravi Kumar, 26, was climbing down from the 8,850-meter-high (29,035 feet) summit and got separated from his guide ...
A man who requested air rescue from a mountainous area in Yamanashi Prefecture was fatally struck Sunday by stones and tree debris possibly dislodged by the hovering chopper's prop wash, local police said. The chopper is believed to have caused the trees and stones to ...
Following the deaths of eight people in an avalanche last week, winter mountaineering practices and competitions involving high school students are being held in at least seven of Japan’s 47 prefectures.
The first woman to climb Mount Everest didn't stop there. Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, who died Thursday at 77, devoted her adult life to scaling peaks, climbing the tallest mountains in more than 70 countries. Her philosophy was to live life to the fullest. "I want ...
This summer saw 660 reported mountaineering accidents across Japan, the most on record, reflecting the mountaineering boom among middle-aged and older people, the National Police Agency said. The figure is the highest since the agency began compiling comparable statistics in 1968. The figure covers accidents ...
Tsuneo Shigehiro, a 68-year-old Japanese mountaineer, departed Friday to climb the Himalayas, 21 years after he last climbed the mountain range, this time leading a team of nine people with an aim to pass on the spirit of mountaineering to the next generation. Shigehiro plans ...
Two Britons and a Mexican have become the first foreigners to climb Mount Everest from the Nepali side since disasters in 2014 and 2015 killed dozens and forced mountaineers off the world's tallest peak. Briton Kenton Cool, 42, and David Liano Gonzalez, 36, of Mexico, ...
A woman who was stranded in the rugged Sierra Nevada for nine days while suffering from some broken bones survived by using a water filter to drink from a creek, authorities said. Miyuki Harwood, 62, was found Saturday morning in a remote area of the ...
A Japanese man has become the unlikely face of Nepal's desperate efforts to revive its climbing industry, seeking to conquer Everest alone for the first time since 18 people were killed in April avalanches — and since he lost all of his fingertips to ...
Eleanor Hawkins has returned to England and apologized to the people of Malaysia for having posed topless on a sacred mountain. The student, who served a three-day jail term in Malaysia's Sabah state before being set free, says she knows her actions had been wrong. She ...
Climber Carsten Pedersen has not given up his childhood dream of scaling Everest, despite last month's avalanche that killed 18 people at base camp after a devastating earthquake. But if he does try again, it may well be from China, not Nepal. Frustrated at the ...
