Oliver Wheeler was responsible for the success of the 1921 Everest expedition, using a method that was pioneered in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. A century ago, a British expedition set out to find ...

British explorers attempting to climb Mount Everest traveled through sacred land on their own mission of redemption. Many climbers today refer to Mount Everest as a sacred mountain, but when the ...

Everest had a somewhat more important task. Loaded with "NC," or Non-Curling black-and-white film, it was a compact recorder of the destiny of the ill-fated expedition. Despite the proliferation ...

To watch the Capturing Everest series on your smartphone, download the LIFE VR app, available for free on iOS and Android. Using the LIFE VR app with a Cardboard virtual reality headset provides ...

Nepal is set to increase the cost of climbing Mount Everest, marking the first price hike for the world’s highest peak in ...

There’s a haunting quality to Ecuadorian Oscar submission “Behind the Mist,” Sebastián Cordero’s intimate documentary on scaling Mount Everest. On one hand, Cordero’s twinning of ...

I returned to Everest the following year. This time I was to film a documentary for the PBS science series NOVA. Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 ...

Ant Middleton gets trapped in an unexpected lifethreatening storm as he attempts to climb Everest the adventurer seeks to understand the attraction of such a popular ...