If you are a beginner climber and you feel like you have to learn another language to get on board, you are not alone.

Ueli Steck is one of today’s most accomplished alpinists. The Swiss Machine’s solo speed-climbing feats in the Alps are the stuff of legend – under three hours for the North Face of the Eiger, and ...

GENEVAGENEVA — Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan, one of the few climbers to ever reach the summits of all 14 of the world’s peaks above 8,000 meters, has died in a climbing fall on his 52nd ...