He had no oxygen masks. He survived extreme cold and high wind speeds that could cause frostbite in minutes. Luckily, he ...

Malfunction carries Peng Yujiang to same height as cruising altitude for aircraft, where temperatures reach -40 degrees ...

Should it be possible to climb Everest in less than a week with performance enhancers? Here are the implications for Nepal, ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

British climbers recently reached the top of Mount Everest in record time. They inhaled xenon gas before the trip. But was ...

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...

The four British former special forces soldiers left the United Kingdom on May 16. By 7:10 a.m. on May 21, they were standing at the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak ...

Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to ...