mountaineering

(Newser) - An Austrian court is weighing a rare questio n: When does a climbing partner become legally responsible for another's death on the mountain? On Monday, 37-year-old identified as Thomas P told a judge in Innsbruck he is "endlessly sorry" that his girlfriend, 33-year-old Kerstin G, died of hypothermia...

(Newser) - The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut on Thursday and crowned its first champion at the Milan Cortina Games. With snow falling, Marianne Fatton of Switzerland navigated the uphill-then-downhill sprint course lined with a diamond-shaped pattern and stairs in a lung-searing time of 2 minutes, 59.77...