It was a moment of pride for adventure sports enthusiasts, as two young mountaineers from Andhra Pradesh created a record of sorts by scaling Mount Elbrus in Russia, which is the highest peak in ...

LOS ANGELES — At the end of this month, two members of California’s Riverside Fire Department will summit Russia’s Mount Elbrus to Conquer Kids’ Cancer. Division Chief David Lesh and firefighter Matt ...

When Drummond completed the Seven Second Summits in 2023, she became the first woman to reach the second-highest peak on every continent. In the two years since, Drummond has focused on returning to ...

A six-year-old boy summited 5,642m Mount Elbrus last week to the delight of his family, which hurried to claim the age record -- to the dismay of most of the climbing community. Teghbir Singh from ...

Five climbers died after a blizzard on Mount Elbrus, Russia's emergencies ministry said Friday, in one of the worst tragedies in recent years on Europe's highest peak. Elbrus, a dormant volcano in ...

When we set out in August to climb Europe's tallest peak, it seemed like a quiet spot in the middle of nowhere. Mount Elbrus, in southern Russia on the border with Georgia, is in one of the most ...

MOSCOW, Sept 24 – Five climbers died after they got caught in a sudden snowstorm on Russia’s Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, officials said. The other 14 members of the party were ...

While many know that Mt. Everest is the highest point in Asia (and if we're talking from sea level, the world), few can pinpoint the year when the infamous peak was first summited. As for the other ...

In this photo made Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 and provided by Olympictorch2014.com, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, mountain climber Karina Mezova and Abdul-Khalim Elmezov, head of Kabardino-Balkaria climbing ...

In the Dec. 17 Voice of the Traveler, Stuart H. Ellison correctly pointed out that the highest mountain in Europe was Mt. Elbrus, not Mt. Blanc as stated in a previous Geoquiz. In a P.S., he noted ...