I could never again maintain that I was caught up in this game unwillingly. I knew now what I wan...

Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year ...

Gerry Galligan's first book is a bold and expansive travel diary recounting his assembling of a s...

Lightning hit the cliff high above us, sending a dumper-load of rocks thrumming like jagged canno...

'"e;Why do you climb?"e; The mountaineer has no answer to this question. The best things ...

'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's ...

Frank Smythe's mountaineering achievements in the decade before the Second World War became a par...

All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others spec...

It is not the courage to go back up that we need. It's the courage to go down. Just to go on ... ...

The start of a love affair. 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware ...

Norway, 1965. A team of young climbers from the north of England camp at the bottom of the talles...

The Great Himalaya Trail is one of the longest and highest trails in the world. It is a trail tha...