Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1982, a small British team set out to tackle one of the most formidable challenges in Himalayan climbing: the ...

A book for dreamers: Savage arena by Joe Tasker. A story about a form of alpinism that has perhaps disappeared but which has certainly left its mark in history. The book review by Ivo Ferrari. Being ...

Luca Schiera, Luca Moroni, and Giacomo Mauri of Italy are on their way to repeat the famed Boardman-Tasker route on the West Wall of Changabang. Why is this repeat of a route on a 6,864m peak in India ...

Kim Ladiges and Matthew Scholes from Australia and Daniel Joll from New Zealand have made the coveted second ascent of the West Wall of Changabang (6880m) in India, first climbed by British ...

When elite mountaineer Joe Tasker died in an accident on Everest in 1982, Maria Coffey, his girlfriend of three years, vowed never to date a climber again. But that experience led Coffey to write ...