In his latest dispatch, our Everest reporter explains the crucial work done by rope-fixing teams. Plus, one climber’s global ...

OAKDALE, Calif. — With electricity rates climbing and frustration mounting, Oakdale city leaders are exploring a major shift: ...

Recreation-focused staff and budgets at national forests have gone down as demand has gone up. This has been resulting in ...

Friends and climbing partners remember the 38-year-old from Chicago, who raised money for cancer patients throughout his ...

From the Aleutians to the Interior to Southeast, we asked Alaskans how they’d rate President Trump’s first 100 days in office ...

NPR received nearly 500 submissions from around the country and beyond from people who shared favorite memories of their ...

Biggest Climber: David Doel and Galileo Nieuwmoed probably have fewer ... which to generate the numbers); it turned out to be a smart choice, and the pair have gone on to add some impressive results ...

Similarly, another world record holder, Sanu Sherpa, is planning to break his own record by climbing mountains above 8,000 meters for the third time. The mountaineers have gone to Everest with a ...

I knew you were gone,” Nina Pancoe said. She said that her and her husband had a “fairytale romance” and that he “lit up my entire world.” Alex Pancoe, 39, of Lake Forest and a Highland Park native, ...

For some, people climbing comes naturally and they gleefully dance uphill on their pedals, while for others, including this author, cycling up a mountain is an almightily painful and boring slog.

An American climber died Sunday on Mount Makalu in Nepal during a climb to raise money for a children's cancer program. Alexander Pancoe, 39, died while settling into his sleeping bag at the ...