Mountain climbing or mountaineering is among the most famous adventure sports in the world. Every year, hundreds and thousands of people try climbing different mountains in order to win prizes or to ...

Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker shares a name with a 19 th century alpinist, the first woman to summit the Matterhorn, in 1871, and the Eiger, in 1864 (feats she accomplished in ...

The new mountain-climbing documentary Meru is not only an irresistible adrenaline rush of a movie (opening Friday at Bay Area theatres), but for serious film buffs a very tangible lesson in the ...

A new documentary premiered on Netflix Wednesday and tackles a unique subject that is long overdue for exploration. “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa,” follows the life of Nepalese ...

Meru, a 2015 documentary film co-directed by Jimmy Chin and his wife, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, thrills. The awe-inspiring film examines the 2011 first ascent of a new route up a 4,000-foot wall ...

The only woman to have scaled Mount Everest 10 times is making easy work of a steep hill in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. On a blistering July day, Lhakpa Sherpa — whose remarkable story is told in the ...

David Breashears, whose mountaineering led him to climb Mt. Everest five times, died at his Massachusetts home on Thursday. He was 68 and no cause has been determined. Breashears co-directed and ...

Climber Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison's history-making descent of Everest's north side on skis.

There's a scary moment midway through the new rock climbing documentary "Girl Climber" when the film's subject, Emily Harrington, has to leave the theater during viewings. During a nighttime climb up ...