MOUNT EVEREST, NEPAL 29,029ft – Boulder resident Matt Moniz stood on top of the world on May 19. Moniz climbed with close friend and professional mountain guide Willie Benegas of Salt Lake City.

To read interviews with all 10 of the Adventurers of the year — and vote in the People’s Choice competition, go to ngadventure.com. Two years ago, Platt Middle School seventh grader Matt Moniz read ...

Seventeen-year-old climbing wunderkind Matt Moniz of Boulder, Colo. is one of the 150 people stuck along on Mount Everest — without his parents. He is one of the lucky ones. He is still alive. Moniz ...

Though he’s only 12 years old, Boulder alpinist Matt Moniz has climbed through plenty of steep rock, snow and ice on his way to the summits of a couple of 20,000-foot peaks. But on his most recent ...

"Destiny definitely put him there to help out," his father said Seventeen-year-old Matt Moniz was climbing Everest when the massive earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, killing more than 2,000 and ...

Boulder mountaineer Matt Moniz, left, stands with his teammate Willie Benegas in a screenshot from a Facebook video taken a day before an earthquake and avalanche hit Nepal and Mount Everest on ...

Boulder teen Matt Moniz had just arrived at the 17,500-foot Mount Everest Base Camp when the devastating earthquake of April 25 struck in Nepal. He dodged a deadly wall of snow to survive unscathed, ...

Matt Moniz, 17, is an accomplished mountaineer who was profiled in CNN's "New Explorers" series before he traveled to Mount Everest Moniz survived a deadly avalanche triggered by the 4/25 Nepal quake ...

Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You ...

His first expedition was to Everest Base Camp. His dad’s friend dropped out at the last minute, so Matt Moniz took his spot. Even though the kid from Colorado hadn’t done any mountaineering before, he ...

NEW BEDFORD – On the early morning of February 11, 2021, my son, Matthew Moniz lost his three-year battle with Ewing Sarcoma, at the young age of thirty-six. As difficult as this battle was, Matthew’s ...