Tragedy struck on Makalu (8,485m / 27,840 feet), the world’s fifth-highest peak, when Alex Pancoe, 39, of Chicago, apparently suffered cardiac arrest at Camp 2 ...

A mountain climber from the Chicago area who was battling leukemia is being remembered on Tuesday for his extraordinary courage and dedication to helping others.

Alexander Pancoe, of Lake Forest, who "climbed for a cause," suffered from cardiac arrest after attempting an "acclimation ...

An American climber died Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday. Nepal’s Mountaineering Department identified the ...

An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children's cancer programme, officials said yesterday, the second death in the Himalayan nation's ...

Alex Pancoe, a 39-year-old American who previously survived a brain tumor, has died during a climbing expedition of Nepal’s ...

An American climber has died after attempting to scale the world's fifth-largest mountain. On Tuesday, Nepalese officials ...

"The two had just finished dinner and were settling into their sleeping bags, chatting casually, when Alex suddenly became ...

Alex Pancoe was attempting to summit the world’s fifth highest mountain to raise money for a kids’ cancer charity while battling leukemia himself ...

An American climber died while attempting to scale Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday.