Filipino climber Miguel Mapalad shares how the Khumbu Icefall nearly broke him during his Everest ascent and what helped him ...

A spacecraft's-eye view over the landscapes of Mars has just given us a first-of-its-kind glimpse of the giant, ancient ...

A new panorama from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, rising above a thick ...

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated ...

Expedition Operators Association Nepal also confirmed that the team from 8K Expeditions successfully opened a climbing route to the summit point on Mt Everest. Lakpa Sherpa, Managing Director and ...

Nepal is planning to restrict expeditions to Mount Everest only to those mountaineers who have climbed at least one peak above 7,000 metres aimed at reducing deaths in the high altitude zone ...

Everest is a historical survival movie directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur. Written by Simon Beaufoy and William Nicholson, the movie is based on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which ...

Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in ...

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 ...

Photograph by Paul Mayewski, National Geographic Snow samples from Mount Everest's Balcony, a resting point ... The same methods were later used to map the base camp and the surrounding Khumbu ...