Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

Not U.S. politics, although close, but climbing Mount Everest. CBS News political contributor Terry Sullivan, who recently journeyed to the top of the world's highest mountain, joins "The Takeout" to ...

A Tucson doctor is talking about why he climbed Mt. Everest. Doctor Richard Chua, a Tucson neurologist, had little training ...

Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.

Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for ...

Today in history: On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Also on this ... when rioting broke out and ...

Mount Siguniang (5,276m) in Sichuan and Muztagh Ata (7,546m) in Xinjiang, China in 2006; Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world in Tibet (8,201m), in 2007; and Camel Peak (5,484m) in Sichuan ...

Agencies Mountaineer from West Bengal dies as he tries to descend from Mt Everest Just hours after standing atop the ... The Hillary Step, a 40-foot vertical rock wall at nearly 8,800 meters above sea ...

Prior to that he was a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal ... the giant spray painted rock at Mount Everest Base Camp. Mount Everest, the name most commonly used by Westerners ...

Prior to that he was a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal ... where the trail to Mount Everest begins. Getting to Lukla during the busy season in the Himalayas can present a challenge.

Mount Everest is to the left of the V-shaped valley," NASA captioned ... vistas of the planet and its most notable landmarks, whether they are the Great Wall of China or the pyramids of Egypt. In ...