SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Austrian-born Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner was 23 years old when she reached the summit of her first 8,000-meter peak. “Already from my childhood, it was my big passion to climb ...

Hundreds of climbers are in the Himalayas this spring to attempt Mount Everest and the other peaks above 8,000 meters (26,000 feet). Very few of them, however, will climb without supplemental oxygen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Sherpa team fixed the last meters of rope to the 8,849m summit of Everest today, the Khumbu Icefall and the Lhotse Face ...

Andrzej Bargiel, a 37-year-old ski mountaineer from Poland, has achieved what no other human has ever managed before. He successfully climbed Mount Everest without bottled oxygen and then skied all ...