Mountaineering Scene Mourns the Loss of Andy Nisbet and Steve Perry The bodies of the highly experienced Scottish climbers were recovered on Wednesday following a fatal fall on Ben Hope in the Highlands.
First Indian ascent of Meru North -- a personal account In 1986, mountaineer Mandip Singh Soin and a small group of friends made the first Indian ascent of Meru North, alpine style — fulfilling one climber's determination to defeat the crux that had been his undoing before. The camera panned in slow motion sweeping across the 2,460-foot rock