Vertical Frontier

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best wa...

A Sherpa family breaks a taboo and climbs the most holy of mountains to earn money for their son’s e...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world...

A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partne...

After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horr...

2005. When a trip to New Zealand gets put off, Boone Speed, Chris Sharma, and Nate Gold have 2 weeks...

Four female climbers face the sporting challenge of a lifetime as they attempt to compete in the fir...

Daredevil mountain climbers on their attempt to break yet another speed climbing record.

Horia Colibasanu is a dentist, father of two boys and elite climber. In 2008, he refused to abandon,...

Every year, over a thousand climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Everest, with the annual recor...

High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 is the deepest story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mou...

The Fitz Roy Traverse is one of the most sought after achievements in modern alpinism: a gnarly jour...

“Getting to the top matters,” or so says veteran alpinist Mark Richey as he prepares to climb Saser...

In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the...

The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountainee...

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their att...

Scotland in winter is an arena where mountaineers pit their skills against exacting climbs often in...

In 1990 Macartney-Snape returned once again to Mt Everest with the idea of climbing the mountain fro...

Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base cam...