Kerstin G was just metres from the summit of Austria’s tallest peak when she collapsed, exhausted, and began to freeze to death. After a full day of climbing with her boyfriend, Thomas P, the ...

It was part of Steinwald’s journey to summit the tallest peak on each continent. Already she’s climbed the tallest peaks in North and South America. Steinwald told the Idaho Statesman in an email that ...

BOISE – When Eva Steinwald reached the summit of Mount Borah in 2018, she cried. They were tears of excitement, awe and, perhaps more than anything else, relief. Climbing Idaho’s tallest mountain was ...

For the second year running the small town of San Martino di Castrozza in the Italian Dolomites will host the Piolets d’Or, the prestigious mountaineering award established in 1992. The organisers ...

Some 26 years ago, the legendary American climber Lynn Hill and all-star team were busy developing what was, at the time, the most difficult big wall climb ever sent by an all-female group. Madagascar ...

MERIDIAN, Idaho — Eva Steinwald is from Meridian, Idaho. She is a realtor and the owner of a local karate studio. Over the last several years, she has become an elite mountain climber. She just ...

In the past decade, the mountain-climbing documentary has become a genre unto itself. Spectacular movies like "Free Solo," "The Dawn Wall," and the 2024 Sundance knockout "Skywalkers: A Love Story" ...