Italian mountain climber Reinhold Messner has criticised a proposal that seeks tougher penalties for people guilty of reckless behaviour on Italy's slopes.

A group of amateur mountaineers have fallen out with their guides, and are now stranded on the lower slopes of Australasia’s highest mountain.

An expedition supported by the Hillary Expedition Grant, is set to climb a new route on the remote peak Mt Pary in Antarctica this month.

Two overseas visitors have fallen down a ravine on Table Mountain, sustaining injuries and requiring an evacuation.

Hansjörg Auer and Much Mayr have freed a new 750 metre high line on the East Face of Central Tower of Paine in Patagonia, South America, despite adverse weather.

One of the world’s most promising young alpinists, Italian mountain and ice climbing legend Luca Vuerich has perished in an avalanche while on an icefall at Prisojinik, on the...

Cyclist Mark Beaumont, famous for being the fastest man to cycle round the world, is on a new adventure to cycle from Alaska to Chile, and climb the America’s highest mountains.

Twenty-five years from now, the Himalayan glaciers would have almost disappeared. Almost.

Pakistan will keep permit prices for big mountains in the Karakorum at half price, as a lack of tourists to the country lead to “a very bleak 2009 season for mountaineering”.

A new, desperate ice route goes in the Austrian Alps at W17+, making it one of the hardest and most sustain ice climbs ever attempted.