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Katelyn Sims remembers reading books about Mount Everest in the third grade. A couple of weeks ago, she found herself standing on top of it. Sims, 34, summited Mount Everest around 11 a.m. on May 23 ...
One local family is grateful to welcome their daughter back home after her mountain climbing achievement. Two weeks ago, Katelyn Sims was scaling Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Sims ...
With recent cuts to USAID, and dangerous over-crowding on the world’s highest peak, Nepal faces serious challenges. Two Everest experts answer questions about it.
Traverse City West sophomore Brody Warren is preparing for his upcoming exchange trip to Nepal as one of the first students ...
Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Since Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the 8,849-metre-high (29,031 ft.) Mount ...
Keval Kakka recently became the first Indian to scale eight of the world’s fourteen 8,000-metre-plus peaks. Mountaineering is ...
One of the highlights of the 2025 spring climbing season featured plentiful use of drones for the route-fixing process across ...
The spring climbing season has ended on Mount Everest, where climbers found success on both the north and south side routes.
Sri Lankan mountaineer Johann Peries is set to leave the island on June 8, heading to Alaska to take on Mount Denali (also known as Mount McKinley), the final summit remaining to complete the Seven ...
CHENEY – Katelyn Corinne Sims, a Cheney High School alum and seasoned mountaineer, has completed one of the most grueling ...
Siffredi held the record for the first uninterrupted snowboard descent from Mount Everest, but the allure of boarding the ...