All news on the topic: Mountain Climbers

Mum-of-one Shilpa Shah died while descending from Mount Kenya on Thursday as guide Kelvin Muriuki Mwithi rushed to save her, but was tragically pulled down a rock face as well

Tom Gerbier has been identified as the hiker who tragically lost his life whilst embarking on a trip to Mount Whitney at the Sequoia National Park in California

The body of missing hiker Adam Fuselier has been found by search teams after he went missing on a Montana mountain last week. Search crews found the body on Reynolds Mountain

Mountaineers have been accused of climbing over Mohammad Hassan as he suffered from fatal injuries after he was hit by an avalanche whilst he attempted to reach the top of the K2

Authorities in Malaysia were called to the final camp before the summit of Mount Kinabalu where the 17-year-old girl, confirmed to be from England, had fallen ill with suspected hypothermia

Police in the Chamonix region said today the unnamed hiker was taking a difficult track near the Bionnassay glacier, the smallest on the French side of the Mont-Blanc massif

Monday marks 70 years to the day that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history and conquered the world's highest peak - and in the decades since, hundreds have followed in their footsteps

Indian climber Anurag Maloo has been rescued from a deep crevasse the size of a skyscraper on the slopes of Mount Anna Purna in Nepal, the world's 10th tallest mountain

A climbing legend who summited Mount Everest an incredible 10 times has died descending another mountain in the Himalayas, as Noel Hanna died on Mount Annapurna on Monday

Intrepid Charlie Batham has climbed more than 232,260ft (70,792m) across the UK in just under four years after getting bitten by the bug aged five

David Joy, 55, was climbing the 3,600m Mount Halgurd with a group of local and international hikers before he reportedly fell 700 metres over rocks, ice and snow, breaking both his legs

Emma Heritage has shared the haunting final words of her husband Daniel, who tumbled down a steep vertical route at Cascade Mountain in Canada's Rockies last year before tragically dying in her arms