Former Mayo inter-county footballer and father of three, Pádraig O’Hora, is set to trade MacHale Park for the world’s highest peak as he departs for Mount Everest on March 30.

With two gold medals, a silver and a bronze at the Milano Cortina Games, French biathlete Lou Jeanmonnot has a novel approach ...

Skyscraper Live. Sanni McCandless Honnold and Alex Honnold in Taipei, Taiwan Courtesy of Netflix World-renowned free solo climber Alex Honnold has successfully summited Taiwan’s Taipei 101 in just ...

Alex Honnold has completed his free solo climb up the Taipei 101 building. The 40-year-old climber scaled the 101-floor building in Taipei, Taiwan, in roughly 1 hour, 35 minutes, per Netflix. After ...

Famed rock climber Alex Honnold masterfully ascended one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers without a rope. “Sick,” he said, standing atop Taipei 101 with a panoramic view of Taiwan’s capital after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rookie climber Madalin Cristea forged a lasting friendship after a daring rescue during an ill-fated attempt to summit Mont Blanc, ...

(CNN) — For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow hikers were descending Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps. The wind was howling, the snow was ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Great Escapes is a series about how sometimes travel doesn’t go as planned — and what happens next. For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow ...