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Mount Everest is the tallest and highest peak on Earth. Or is it? Here’s everything you need to know about the world’s most famous mountain.

In hobnail boots, tweed jackets, shirt, tie and warm mittens, hardy mountaineers from a black and white age tackled and conquered Scotland’s…

Ryan Driscoll, Justin Guarino and Nick Aiello-Popeo Send The Medusa Face on Mt. Neacola Chris Kalman [Photo] Nick Aiello-Popeo From April 18-25 2021, Ryan Driscoll, Justin Guarino and Nick Aiello-Popeo made the first ascent of the north face (or Medusa Face) of Mt. Neacola, in the Neacola Mountains of Alaska's Aleutian Range. They followed the line of Topher Donahue and Kennan Harvey's 1995 attempt for the first roughly 3,500 feet, before adding more than 800 vertical feet of new sustained M6 and A2 climbing on decomposing rock. The final six pitches took 12 hours to climb. It didn't bother t...

Here, Robin Longbottom looks back at the life of a celebrated mountaineer and photographer UNTIL the mid 1970s, there was a small collection of framed photographs on display in the old Keighley Reference Library. They were of mountain scenes taken in the French and Swiss Alps by Alfred Holmes, of Keighley, who during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was one of the district’s most celebrated mountaineers and rock climbers. He was born in Keighley in 1846 and was in business as a machine woolcomber in Great Horton, Bradford. He never married and his bachelor status left him ...