Alan Arnette, an Everest summiteer and a well-respected chronicler of the mountain, suggests that from his research the ...

Show more British mountaineer and former soldier Leslie Binns was just 400 metres from achieving his lifelong dream of reaching the summit of Everest, when he came across an Indian climber ...

Unlike our Everest Quest expedition, which is approaching the summit from the south side ... The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour.

Getty images Members of Chinese surveying team pose for photos at Base Camp ... and modern techniques. Why the summit can get so crowded How deadly is Mount Everest? Ex-soldier breaks record ...

A polar researcher turned National Geographic photographer, Bishop was on the first U.S. expedition to summit Everest. (See the story from the October 1963 issue of National Geographic.) ...

Mount Everest stands at 29,032 feet, the highest point on Earth. It’s a symbol of human dreams and goals. Since 1953, about 4,000 climbers have reached its top. This mountain, known as Sagarmatha in ...

Alongside each series of photos are piles of letters and journals ... Today, we see climbers lined up to reach Everest’s summit in their fancy high-tech synthetic climbing apparel with ...

Fans were left gawking over the latest photos that Sam Heughan posted from his hiking trip in Nepal’s Everest region ... until the summit of Amphu Laptsa [sic] 19,200ft!” ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...

A former Army officer is aiming to lead the fastest ever expedition to the summit of Mount Everest with the help of a rare gas that encourages the production of red blood cells. Garth Miller ...

For Everest summit hopefuls the royalty fee is only the start of the overall cost for an expedition, with prices reportedly ranging from around $33,000 to $200,000 depending on the type ...