Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! ith increased ...

IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.

The National Cadet Corps (NCC), India, has launched its first-ever Boys and Girls Mt Everest Expedition 2025. The expedition is being managed by Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd. The expedition ...

In preparation for their upcoming Mt Everest challenge, the team climbed the Tugela Falls route last weekend: Praval and Sunjay Bodasing, Spinks Isipingo, Rajen Pillay, Anesh Rampurtab and Mahir ...

was the first to climb it en route to the summit of Everest in 1953, the Hillary Step is perhaps the most famous example of a crux in the world of mountaineering. This 12-meter rock face was ...

For months, Jeno Panganiban and Miguel Mapalad of the Philippine 14 Peaks Expedition team had spoken of scaling Mount Everest and the world’s highest peaks. Surrounded by family and friends in ...

The challenging and often deadly path to the top of Mount Everest (approximately 8,850 meters/29,000 feet) has changed a lot since the first successful climb on May 29, 1953, by Edmund Hillary and ...

“Our type of expedition opens Mount Everest up to people who don’t have enough free time for the traditional experience,” Furtenbach told Outside. “We are confident they will summi ...

is often considered more challenging than Mt. Everest. At the flag-off ceremony, Sanjay Seth praised NIMAS’s efforts and acknowledged Col Jamwal’s invaluable contribution to adventure sports in India.

When it comes to preparing for the great outdoors, indoors, few movements are as suited to building mountain legs as the humble box step-up. The CrossFit Hero WOD ‘Chad’, which challenges you ...

Mount Washington Observatory forecaster Alexandra Branton climbs the instrument tower to mount a wind sensor. We take great pride in New Hampshire to be the home of Mount Washington, which is ...