The 7 Summits, the highest peak on each of the seven continents, not only requires extreme effort to climb but also presents a logistical challenge simply to get to each mountain. Planes ...

including guiding a trek up the highest mountain in Antarctica. Suddenly, he found he had climbed three of the hardest of the seven summits on each continent. “In terms of the seven summits, it wasn’t ...

BMC member Madalin Cristea, known as Cris, from Romania, has become the first person to summit both Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro from sea level and back again. He is currently attempting to be the first ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents ... buckles into mountain ranges. India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system ...

which includes the highest mountains on each continent of the planet. 'On top of Oceania! Thanks to all my partners for their support!,' wrote the climber from Petrosani in an announcement posted on ...

With this achievement, he became the first Nepali climber to scale all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks and the highest summits on each continent, all without supplemental oxygen—a feat ...