Mount Everest. The planet's highest peak. Adventure beacon for trekkers, climbers, adrenalin junkies. At nearly 30,000-feet above sea level, as high as a commercial airliner flies at cruising ...

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas. It wants to be host for the world's highest same-sex wedding, at Everest base camp. But mainly, the conservative ...

Mountain climber Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest. The kids meet Junko Tabei, a mountain climber who wants to be the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Most people know that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain but I want to know for how long it has been the tallest, and for how long in the future it will remain so (…) Which range preceded it ...

Most people know that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain, but how long has it been the tallest, and how long will it remain so? When will another mountain overtake it? Experts explain.

HONG KONG - Twenty secondary and four university students will make an expedition to Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. The group will study the environment while going mountain trekking ...

Earth’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest, is growing faster than scientists previously thought due to something called isostatic rebound.

Although staffers are a bit leery about Benitez’s choice of approach, they say they’re completely confident that he’ll pull off a creative simulation of a Mount Everest climb.

Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink with a campaign urging gay honeymooners to take a trek through the Himalayas.

A 63-year-old man in Reston, Virginia, plans to climb Mount Everest in order to raise money for children who are battling cancer.