Kerstin G's boyfriend is accused of leaving her unprotected and exhausted close to the summit during a blizzard.

To be sure, Nepal has tried to deal with the problem through a series of measures. Raising climbing fees did little to ...

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A climber is on trial for manslaughter after leaving his girlfriend to get help while climbing on Austria’s highest mountain.

It looks pretty bad when a jury learns that two years before you abandoned your girlfriend on a mountain, you abandoned a different girlfriend on the same mountain.

An Austrian climber has been found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter after his girlfriend froze to death on Austria's ...

The man was found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter after his girlfriend died of hypothermia on a climbing trip.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two mountain climbers have died on Aoraki, New Zealand 's tallest peak, and two others from the same group were rescued, authorities said on Tuesday. The dead climbers' ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

A man accused of leaving his girlfriend to freeze to death on Austria’s tallest mountain went on trial on Thursday in a case that could have major implications for mountain climbers and how liable ...