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When does hiking become mountaineering? The difference isn't just about the terrain, but about the conditions you're tackling it under
Our mountaineering guru considers when a hike ends and a mountaineering mission begins
Haglöfs LIM ZT Flex Trousers review: peak-performing pants for mountaineers and hill hikers, with a price to match
Ultra-light and super-stretchy hiking trousers for tackling technical trails, scrambling routes, alpine terrain and proper tall peaks
America’s tallest mountain claims its first victim of the climbing season after mountaineer falls 3,000ft to his death from near the summit
Authorities have recovered the body of Alex Chiu after he fell from the Denali mountain, otherwise known as Mount McKinley
Climbing World Cup preview: Unstoppable Anraku eyes bouldering history as the women's competition heats up in Prague
The world's best boulderers are limbering up for another round of action and excitement at the upcoming bouldering World Cup in Prague
Rain stops play - stormy weather forces an early end to the latest Climbing World Cup round, with some unexpected medals as a result
USA's Emma Hunt and Indonesian Kiromal Katibin took gold after heavy wind and rain brought the contest to an abrupt close
Thousands of climbers gearing up to take on America's tallest mountain as the peak summer season gets underway
Dozens have already summitted Alaska's Denali mountain, which was controversially renamed Mount McKinley by Donald Trump earlier this year
After record-breaking Everest climbers revealed they use hypoxic tents to get altitude ready without acclimatizing on the mountain, we look at how the technology works
Hypoxic tents are used by climbers to prepare for the dizzying effects of altitude atop the world's tallest mountains
"I’m thrilled to have achieved what many people in the mountaineering world said was impossible" – we talk to Andrew Ushakov about his record-breaking Everest summit, along with the altitude specialist behind his time-saving technique
The Ukrainian-American climber puts the success of his sea to summit Everest speed climb down to over 400 hours spent in a hypoxic tent - we got the low down on how he prepared
