Everest serves as a natural history book, chronicling the planet's formative processes over eons. Mount Everest is more than ...

As stories surface about Jim Whittaker and the celebration this Wednesday of the 50th anniversary of his becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest, a few interesting facts rise to the ...

One very determined 85-year-old is attempting to make Mount Everest history ... again. Min Bahadur Sherchan, an ambitious 85-year-old climber, hopes to once again become the the oldest person to ...

Vittorio Sella's work shaped both mountain photography and mountaineering history. Hari Budha Magar MBE from Canterbury summited Mount Everest in 2023. The price to climb the world's tallest peak ...

This is because any proof that Irvine and Mallory indeed summited Mount Everest in 1924 would change the course of mountaineering history; it would mean the pair conquered the mountain 29 years ...

About 3,000 of Nepal's more than 10,000 Sherpas reside in the Khumbu valley, the gateway to the southern side of Mount Everest. Because their physical prowess at high altitudes is unmatched ...

It is the sacred threshold to Mount Everest, with the most dramatic views in the world. One of the first British explorers to see it, John Noel, described it: "Some colossal architect, who built ...

The expedition to Mount Everest will be led by Colonel Anshuman Bhadauria, while the one to Kangchenjunga will be led by Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal. The latter journey, commencing on April 7 ...

KATHMANDU -- Pemba Sherpa was at the resting spot known as The Balcony, which, at 8,430 meters, is the last level area before the summit of Mount Everest, when he decided not to keep going up.