Lou Whittaker, an elder statesman of American climbing who led pioneering expeditions to Mount Everest, started one of the country’s premier guide services and summited his own backyard peak ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Lou Whittaker, a legendary American mountaineer who helped lead ascents of Mount Everest, K2 and Denali, and who taught generations of climbers during his more than 250 trips up ...

British climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker have both repeated Cobra Crack at Squamish, Canada. Whittaker and Randall gave themselves circa three weeks to get to grips with the former aid route ...