Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face. The central section is cut by massive ...

PlayAlpinismo film channel: The Man Who Skied Down Everest, the 1976 best documentary Oscar winning film that recounts the incredible story of Yuichiro Miura and the first time man skied on Everest. A ...

He was building a school and waterworks with Sir Edmund Hillary who, with Tenzing Norgay, had been the first to climb Everest 10 years earlier in 1953 ... in the tail — the near vertical Hillary Step ...

Oliver Wheeler was responsible for the success of the 1921 Everest expedition, using a method that was pioneered in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. A century ago, a British expedition set out to find ...

When it comes to preparing for the great outdoors, indoors, few movements are as suited to building mountain legs as the humble box step-up. The CrossFit Hero WOD ‘Chad’, which challenges you ...

Base camp occupies a site on the gravel plain below the Rongbuk Glacier at approximately 17,000 feet. Tents are set up on the sandy gravel valley, which carves out a north-south swath in the high ...