Elizabeth Lavis planned to hike one of the highest mountains in the Bolivian Andes for her birthday. She said she climbed too quickly, lacking preparation and acclimation, and got altitude psychosis.

I work out religiously, but nothing you can do in Arkansas fully prepares you for the thin Andean air. Every step is a ...

Ex-St. Paul resident, acclaimed photographer dies in Andes climbing tragedy originally appeared on Bring Me The News. A distinguished photographer and mountain climber who previously lived in St. Paul ...

November 2025 the Chilean mountain guides Raimundo De Andraca and Diego Saez reached the south summit of Cerro El Brujo in the Chilean Andes, establishing a new route on this 4,460m peak.

LIMA, Peru — Police in Peru said Tuesday they have found the cold-preserved body of an American mountaineer who was buried by an avalanche 22 years ago as he tried to climb one of the highest peaks in ...

Jim Weinman was a skilled mountaineer and extreme adventure who grew up in Clifton Park and went missing at age 32 on a solo ice climb in the Andes Mountains on June 3, 2000. His remains were ...

Jim Weinman vanished on June 3, 2000, while on a solo ice climb in Chile. Decades later, scientists studying global warming found his body in a melting glacier Jim Weinman was a skilled mountaineer ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Her zeal for mountain trekking and climbing only increased after her transplant on Nov. 20, 1995. Any fears about stressing her new heart were overwhelmed by a desire to rebuild her strength. Some 3.5 ...

Twenty two years ago, an avalanche buried Chino resident and climber Bill Stampfl as he made his way up one of the highest peaks in the Andes mountains. His family knew there was little hope of ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Twenty two years ago, an avalanche buried American climber William Stampfl as he made his way up one of the highest peaks in the Andes mountains. His family knew there was little ...