The following commentary from veteran filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears was excerpted from an interview conducted by Andrew North of THE WORLD. QUESTION: How likely do you think it is ...

Says David Breashears, "You literally pray for a puff of wind or a cloud to cover the sun so you can keep moving up to Advance Base Camp." The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the ...

On March 14, mountaineer David Breashears died at age 69. He was the first U.S. climber to summit Everest twice, in 1983 and 1985. Breashears took part in 16 expeditions to the Himalaya.

Filmmaker and climate-change campaigner David Breashears spent this spring taking around 400 images of Everest and its near neighbours from a vantage point above base camp through a 300mm lens.

as well as mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears, this symposium will look at the effects of these changes on the millions living downstream in China and Southeast Asia who are dependent on ...