Latest about Climbing Records
Nepalese teen becomes the youngest person to summit the world's 14 highest peaks
Beating the previous record by 12 years, 18-year-old Nima Rinja Sherpa dedicated his achievement to his fellow Nepalese sherpas
50-year-old is first US woman to climb all world's tallest mountains
Tracee Metcalfe completes epic challenge to reach summit of the 14 eight-thousanders
Think you've got grit? Meet the record-breaker who scaled Britain's 30 tallest peaks in just two days
James Norbury took on the ultra-endurance challenge to entice people to Britain's lesser known peaks
There’s no Olympic gold for it, but a French climber has more than halved the K2 ascent speed record
French climber Benjamin Vedrines summits K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, in just under 11 hours
Swiss climber scales 18 Alpine peaks in under 8 hours to break “Spaghetti Tour” record
Most experienced climbers take five days to complete this feat – Andy Steindl took 7 hours, 45 minutes, and 44 seconds
"His diet of meat, salt, and water seems to have given him unusual strength" – Yosemite speed climber crushes El Cap record
Nick Ehman is the first to solo aid climb The Nose in under five hours
Eight-year-old becomes youngest ever to summit El Capitan – but there's controversy
Some climbers say the method used by Sam Baker and his father shouldn't qualify as a record, and question their motives
Mountaineer sets new record for pushing peanut up peak with his nose
Bill Salem pushed the legume to the summit of Pikes Peak in one week, smashing the previous record by a whole day
