The Ye Washon headstone, located in Georgetown’s historic Oak Hill Cemetery, marks the first Korean American born on U.S.

The conservative People Power Party intensified its attacks on liberal presidential candidate Rep. Lee Jae-myung for a second ...

A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the ...

Rather than taking weeks or months, climbers are trying to summit Everest in just 7 days by inhaling xenon gas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Peter Hackett, a pioneer in altitude research.

When normies want to set lofty fitness goals for themselves, they train for half- or full-marathons. If they’re feeling ...

Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...

A 63-year-old French climber has died trying to scale the world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga, the expedition's ...

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

Lee Jae-myung and Kim Moon-soo represent the opposite sides of a country polarized over former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s use ...

Thanks to the Dick and Lynne Cheney Study Abroad Endowment, thousands of UW students have had the opportunity of ...