Elite mountaineer, skier, certified mountain guide, and entrepreneur Adrian Ballinger tackles big mountains and challenges.

In his latest dispatch from the hike to Mount Everest Base Camp, the writer discusses how the booming tourism industry has ...

Ballinger’s latest endeavor has taken him and his team to the north side of Mount Everest ... “The fine line between taking risk and mitigating risk is my passion. Climbing, skiing, and ...

One benefit of the Everest crowds is more witnesses.” Tyler Andrews is built for this challenge. “I think the through-line ... ascent of Mt. Everest, he successfully completed climbing the ...

We arrived at Gorak Shep, in the Himalayan region of Khumbu, less than an hour ago, after a brutal seven-hour hike from Dingboche. The small village is the final stop on our journey to the base of Mt ...

We arrived at Gorak Shep, in the Himalayan region of Khumbu, less than an hour ago, after a brutal seven-hour hike from Dingboche. The small village is the final stop on our journey to the base of Mt ...

An experienced Austrian mountaineer named Lukas Furtenbach has shortened Everest trips to weeks with “flash” expeditions that used hypoxic tents. He approached the four men with the idea of cutting ...