Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Happy Mother’s Day! My mom friends and I are debating a question that is going around social media: Is it OK for kids to climb up the slide at the playground? It’s your classic Mom War: One mom called ...

In 1970, the wind-swept slopes of Denali were the site of an unsung historic feat: the first all-women’s attempt to summit one of the big mountains of the world. By then, we had sent men to the moon, ...

What do a West Bromwich Albion flag, a 20-seater minibus of sweaty journalists and the Timo Roosen fan club have in common? Not much, really… But they were all on the roadside of the iconic Alto de ...