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

Xenon Gas. Angela Benavides reported in an Article for ExplorersWeb that a Mount Everest expedition team intends to climb the highest mountain in the world over a 4-5 day period this spring. To do ...

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 ...

A National Geographic documentary team has found on Mount Everest what they believe is the partial remains of a British climber who vanished 100 years ago during a quest to become among the first ...

An Everest Climber Had ‘No Energy, No Oxygen, Nothing.’ A Sherpa Saved Him. The arduous six-hour rescue in May came during an especially deadly spring climbing season on the world’s highest ...

that can kill you on Mount Everest. You fall into the mountain, you fall off the mountain, the mountain falls on you. But because it's the highest. and because people like to check boxes, it's ...

Located on the border with China’s Tibet, Solukhumbu’s crowning glory is Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,849 metres (29,032 feet), but it also hosts Lhotse (8,516 metres ...

Following years of concern over the amount of climbers — both experienced and amateur — attempting to scale Mount Everest, a major change is in the works. Primary Menu Sections US News ...

Attempts on Mt. Everest from the north side began in the 1920's by British teams first led by George Mallory, but to no avail. Most significant was Mallory's 1924 British Expedition with Andrew ...

The world’s tallest mountain is getting taller. Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma, has grown about 15 to 50 meters (50 to 164 feet) higher over the past 89,000 years than expected ...