High above the Himalayas, where the air grows thin and the risks rise, a drone roughly the weight of a baby yak, but with ...

Climber describes scene in Everest's "death zone" : Traffic jams and corpses 02:41. A Kenyan and a Nepali climber have died close to Mount Everest's summit, tourism officials said Thursday, taking ...

Officials said more than 450 climbers have scaled Mount Everest from the Nepali side of the peak this season. The spring climbing season on the world’s tallest mountain shuts down at the end of May.

MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — David Breashears, a mountaineer, author and filmmaker who co-directed and co-produced a 1998 IMAX documentary about climbing Mount Everest, has died, his business manager has ...

High above the clouds on earth’s highest peak, climbers are making the arduous trek up Mount Everest. The narrow window of the spring summit season, which usually lasts from April to May, is the ...