Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...

We take a look at when the best time to climb Everest is, why it is that the climbing window is so short and why summer and ...

Junko Tabei's summit of Everest on May 16, 1975 was not her hardest battle. It took her a lifetime to be acknowledged as a true pioneer.

Scientists are digitising the Fungarium at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew – one of the world’s biggest collections of fungal diversity.

Four ex-military friends are planning to summit Everest without the usual lengthy acclimitization period, relying on ...

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

A restaurant in Galashiels named in honour of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest is aiming to clear a planning hurdle.

Galdikas joins a long list of distinguished recipients to have received the award; among the household names on the roll of honour are Jane Goodall, Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong. “We are ...

Fancy climbing the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest? You'll have to overcome some of these obstacles on your way ...

In 1953, the Swiss brand sent models of an earlier Oyster Perpetual expression to the team of daring mountaineers, including Sir John Hunt, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa climber ...