In his latest video dispatch, Ben Ayers discusses the big storylines that shaped the spring climbing season on the world’s ...

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It appears Mount Everest hasn’t reached peak growth. A surprising new report has found that the world’s highest summit is growing more and more each year due to an ancient phenomenon from ...

Two people died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale the world's highest peak, expedition organizers said.

New safety measures for Mount Everest proposed by Nepal would require climbers to demonstrate previous high-altitude Himalayan experience before attempting the world's tallest peak.

Attempts on Mt. Everest from the north side began in the 1920's by British teams first led by George Mallory, but to no avail.

Mount Everest’s Icefall Doctors, the workers who build and maintain the route through the Khumbu Glacier, pursue a livelihood rooted in tradition and danger ...

A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world's highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide. Kenton Cool, 51 ...

Scientists say Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, is still growing thanks in part to the merger of two river systems tens of thousands of years ago.

Mount Everest, Nepal is drafting a new law that would require climbers to first summit at least one 7,000-meter in efforts to improve safety and reduce deadly overcrowding jams. Additionally, both ...

Mount Everest, seen from Gokyo, Nepal, towers over all other mountains on Earth and grows taller by millimeters every year. In research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, geologists ...

There is nothing to disclose. Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why? At 8,849 metres above sea ...