Extreme sports exist in that strange space where human ambition meets the absolute edge of what’s physically possible. Second ...

Paul "PJ" Ortiz Jr. was climbing Mount Whitney in the Eastern Sierra mountains when he fell from a cliff in an infamous area ...

State Attorney Amira Fox on Oct. 31 announced that the state filed its intent to seek death against Qwentosha Massaquoi, 46, and Louis Massaquoi, 47.

Two regions of war-torn Sudan are enduring a famine that is at risk of spreading to other areas of the sprawling northeastern ...

Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest. Morrison told The Associated Press on Tuesday ...

Clyde Hart, who coached Olympic 400m gold medalists Michael Johnson, Sanya Richards-Ross and Jeremy Wariner while spending 56 ...

"His death didn't happen in a vacuum," said older brother Alex Spors. "I absolutely think there's a cause and effect there." ...

Severe weather complicated a multi-day effort to recover the body of a hiker who fell to his death along Mt. Whitney's ...

Avalanche accidents are a persistent issue in the Italian Alps, with the country registering one of the higher 10-year ...

The climbers were in two groups in northern Italy on Saturday night when an avalanche struck. Two people survived.