High-altitude drone captures rare view of Mount Everest. Using a drone modified to fly in thin air, photographer Renan Ozturk captured a stunning 360-degree panorama of the roof of the world.

On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit ...

Henry shares a story of how two explorers traversed Antarctica. One was wearing an Omega Speedmaster on his wrist ✓ ...

Climbing Mount Everest may get even harder. A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such proposals rarely become law.

Katelyn Sims remembers reading books about Mount Everest in the third grade. A couple of weeks ago, she found herself standing on top of it. Sims, 34, summited Mount Everest around 11 a.m. on May ...

AP’s team in Kathmandu typically relies on third-party visuals to cover the annual influx of climbers attempting to summit Mount Everest. But this year, photographer Niranjan Shrestha had a new idea: ...

History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, ... Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed Everest without supplemental oxygen.

Yet the 2025 death totals—three on Mount Everest’s upper reaches, five total— represents a decrease from 2024 when eight people died, and in 2023, when 18 lost their lives.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded early Tuesday morning near Mount Vernon. The shakes were recorded around 1:59 a.m. Tuesday about 3 kilometers west of Mount Vernon ...