Best Mountaineering Expedition Destinations Worldwide
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Mountaineering Expedition Destinations Worldwide Mountaineering means a different thing depending on who's saying it. To one person, it's a guided summit week on Kilimanjaro. To another, it's three weeks on the Khumbu Icefall trying to push a new line on Lhotse's south face. This guide tries to cover the full ladder - from the entry-level peaks that teach you how to use crampons, through the Seven Summits, all the way up to the Karakoram and Himalaya where the air is thin enough that summiting becomes a survival problem as much as a climbing one. I'm not a high-altitude porter. I've climbed eight 4,000-metre peaks, two 5,000-metre peaks, and sat at Everest Base Camp once with a head splitting from the dry air. Most of what's below comes from that experience plus what I've learned listening to people who've been to 7,000 metres and back. Where I'm summarising other climbers' work, ...