Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of hikers follows a path near the Rwenzori Mountains, a mountain range in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and a ...

Before 2011, no one had ever climbed to the summit of the “shark’s fin,” a blade-like outcropping of ice-and-snow-covered rock rising to a height of 21,000 feet from the back of Mount Meru in the ...

A viewer expects some high drama in a documentary about scaling one of the world’s most challenging mountains. What you might not expect is feeling the impulse to sink into your chair in a state of ...

Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk made history in 2011 by becoming the first people ever to reach the summit of the central peak of Mount Meru, a nearly 22,000-foot-tall mountain in the ...

“Meru” will open your eyes — and not just visually, as you might expect from a documentary on an obsessive quest to be the first to climb an impossible peak in the Himalayas, but psychologically as ...

Giripremi, a city-based mountaineering group, claims to have set a mark by ascending Mt Meru South from its difficult west face for the first time. The Pune-based team successfully climbed Mt Meru ...

If Mount Everest is the iconic goddess of mountains, then Meru in the Indian Himalayas is the unattainable, unknowable bad-ass rock star, beckoning to a chosen few from an impossibly remote place high ...

Mist clung to the moss-covered, rain-soaked valleys of Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains, where the only sound was the rush of glacial streams and the call of distant birds. A world away, climbers on Mount ...