Climbing 12,662-foot Borah Peak, Idaho’s highest mountain, is something you do once, just to say you did it. I remember climbing the peak in 1985. It was my first peak and our group consisted of avid ...

Forget what you’ve heard about climbing Borah Peak. The worst part of climbing Idaho’s tallest mountain is not Chickenout Ridge. Unless you have a serious problem ...

When Eva Steinwald reached the summit of Mount Borah in 2018, she cried. They were tears of excitement, awe and, perhaps more than anything else, relief. Climbing Idaho’s tallest mountain was how the ...

When Hao Yan moved to Boise last month, he knew he wanted to climb Idaho's tallest mountain. The New York native, who has been attending school in Pennsylvania, came to the western United States to ...

Climbers descend along Borah Peak’s Chickenout Ridge. Borah is actually four feet taller than traditionally thought, according to data from a new elevation measurement technique. Idaho Statesman file ...

MACKAY — Hundreds of people came together to search for two Idaho Falls men who went missing while climbing Mt. Borah in 1977. The story on the missing climbers was featured in our weekly Looking Back ...

A Pennsylvania man was rescued early Sunday morning after falling on Idaho's tallest mountain and triggering a small avalanche. Hao Yan, 23, was hiking up the north face of Mount Borah when he fell ...

It was part of Steinwald’s journey to summit the tallest peak on each continent. Already she’s climbed the tallest peaks in North and South America. Steinwald told the Idaho Statesman in an email that ...