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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Qatari royal family member Sheikha Asma Al Thani among 18 climbers from Satori Adventures today scaled Mt Makalu. According to Rishi Bhandari, Managing Director at Satori Adventures, Al Thani ...

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