The moment crystallized something larger than personal achievement. In a world quick to tell young people what they cannot do ...

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.

Courtesy of Ma Chunlin. From 6,500 meters above sea level, a drone rises over the jagged icefields and snow-capped ridges of ...

Re-Ride of the historic Pony Express mail service will be conducted from June 11-21, with stops in western Nebraska on June 18. The first stop will be ...

TNIE catches up with Sreesha Raveendran, a 35-year-old working mom, the only Malayali woman to have climbed over 15 Himalayan peaks — including her latest conquest, Mt Everest ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — One local family is grateful to welcome their daughter back home after her mountain climbing achievement. Two weeks ago, Katelyn Sims was scaling Mt. Everest, the tallest ...

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 ...

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.

It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably linked. In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a ...

Apple's 'Tenzing' has tapped Genden Phuntsok for the lead role of sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who summited Mt. Everest in 1953. Skip to main content Open Mega Menu ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque’s very own hiking history maker is back home after hiking Mount Everest. “We’ve been supporting Duke for quite some time,” Iz Rael said.