Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teams hurried today to the summits of Dhaulagiri and Cho Oyu to seize the last hours of a remarkable weather window that is ...

Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington training prior to climbing Cho Oyu in Tibet, at 8188m the sixth highest mountain in the world. Last season America’s Adrian Ballinger (40) and Emily Harrington ...

Benedikt Boehm and Prakash Sherpa are currently stationed at advanced base camp, where a storm front has deposited roughly three feet of snow thus far. Usually, the arrival of snow is good news for ...

Pummeled by gastric illness and facing an incoming bad weather front, Ueli Steck and Don Bowie pulled off an ascent of Cho Oyu (8,201m) last week, knocking off the sixth-highest peak on Earth and ...

For the first time in years, expeditions were planned on the Tibetan side for all three 8,000m peaks. While the American team progresses on Everest and the Cho Oyu groups have permission to enter ...

I've been amused to read the news and comments regarding Marat Safin's decision to skip the next few weeks of tennis, including Russia's Davis Cup semifinal against Germany this weekend. Instead, he ...

Nepali climber Gelje Sherpa, 29, is proceeding with a wintertime ascent of 26,864-foot Cho Oyu, which straddles the China-Nepal border. While most expeditions on the mountain start in Tibet, Gelje ...

Phoning back to Aspen after another ski descent from the death zone, Mike Marolt was succinct with his remarks.”Everybody’s slammed, tired and dehydrated,” he uttered, “but we’re working on all that, ...

The Continental Adventure Series recently climbed the first peak in a series in preparation for ascending Cho Oyu, a peak in the Himalayas, in spring of 2004. Five local residents joined six people ...

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