With the return of good weather, climbs of 8,485m Makalu have resumed. Surprisingly, a significant number of climbers are not ...

The 38-year-old from Chicago beat a brain tumor as a teenager and used his passion for mountaineering to raise money for ...

"The two had just finished dinner and were settling into their sleeping bags, chatting casually, when Alex suddenly became ...

Matthew Scholes kept going up Makalu after everybody else turned around. The 36-year-old Australian summited on his own, ...

Three 8,000m peaks saw summit success today. On all three, at least some climbers made it to the top without bottled oxygen ...

Alexander Pancoe recently fought chronic myeloid leukemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for a pediatric ...

Tragedy struck on Makalu (8,485m / 27,840 feet), the world’s fifth-highest peak, when Alex Pancoe, 39, of Chicago, apparently suffered cardiac arrest at Camp 2 (6,600m) on the 8,000-meter peak.

Alex Pancoe, a 39-year-old American who previously survived a brain tumor, has died during a climbing expedition of Nepal’s ...

Five Sherpa siblings from Sangkhuwasabha today scaled the world's fifth highest mountain, according to expedition organiser.

Pancoe aimed to raise $27,838 – the height of Mt Makalu in feet – for Lurie Children’s pediatric blood cancer programme in his hometown. The climber had survived a brain tumour but was ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- An American climber died while attempting to scale Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday. Nepal’s ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An American climber died while attempting to scale Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday. Nepal’s Mountaineering Department identified the climber who died ...