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

Mt. Everest isn't the only natural feature of Earth that can be distinguished from space. At over 1,400 miles long, the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia, ...

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 ...

Mount Everest tackles 60,000-pound trash problem with campaign to clean up waste. Thousands of pounds of trash is strewn across the world's highest peak. By Dragana Jovanovic.

One of the world's greatest mountain guides has regained his title for the most climbs of Mt. Everest after scaling the peak for the 27th time.

It was in 1856 that the formerly overlooked Peak XV – soon to be Mount Everest – was officially declared to be the world’s tallest mountain above sea level, at 29,002 ft (8,839.8 meters.

When asked by The New York Times why he wanted to climb Everest, British mountaineer George Mallory, who died on the mountain during his third expedition there in 1924, famously answered ...

Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet.. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in ...

A new book details the elaborate industry that has developed around Mt. Everest and the hundreds of climbers who attempt to scale it each year. REUTERS In April, 2013, a group of Sherpas, the ...