The world’s greatest skyrunner shares the shoes, fitness tracker, and practices that let him climb every mountain in the ...

NEW DELHI – British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled new heights — once again — by reaching the summit of Mount Everest for a record-breaking 19th time as a non-Sherpa climber. The 51-year-old ...

When Kilian Jornet set out from Longs Peak, Colorado, on September 3, his goal wasn’t just to climb mountains, it was to connect them and connect to them. Over the next 31 days, the Spanish ...

NEW DELHI – In a week marked by staggering feats at the roof of the world, two Nepali climbers have rewritten Everest’s record books—each in his own historic way. On May 27, veteran mountaineer Kami ...

Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers, did something this month that left even other elite athletes gasping: He climbed all 72 summits in the contiguous United States that ...

The jeep broke down. The route up Mount Rainier was filled with crevasses. An icy traverse between Blanca and Little Bear Peak in Colorado forced them to camp out at 14,000 feet. Fifty-one years after ...

Kilian Jornet wanted to summit 72 of the tallest peaks in the contiguous United States. He gave himself a month to do it. By Scott Cacciola and K.K. Rebecca Lai Kilian Jornet was drenched and tired.

Earlier this month 37-year-old Spanish athlete Kilian Jornet completed an extraordinary endurance challenge he dubbed States of Elevation. In a single 31-day push he climbed all 72 peaks in the Lower ...

A blizzard that trapped hundreds of trekkers on the north side of Mount Everest last weekend captured headlines for its proximity to the famed peak. But less appreciated was the truly bizarre nature ...