She reached the 8,091-metre (26,545-foot) Annapurna summit to become the first Iranian woman to peak the mountain. Hesamifard has previously conquered Mount Everest and K2. Annapurna is a mountain ...

A woman has become the first from America to reach the summit of all 14 of the world’s tallest mountains. Tracee Metcalfe, 50, from Vail, Colorado, completed the feat on Friday by climbing 26 ...

When 27-year-old Sumitra Acharya took on a job as a trekking porter in 2019, she had a mountain to climb. With Nepal’s outdoor industry a male-dominated field, she defied societal expectations ...

A member of medical staff helps India's record-holding climber Baljeet Kaur after being rescued from the treacherous Annapurna mountain range, at a hospital in Kathmandu on April 18, 2023.

Hanna, 56, died overnight in his camp in west Nepal after scaling Mount Annapurna, or Annapurna 1, the world's 10th tallest mountain and the tallest peak in the range at 26,545 feet, officials said.