A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

Mount Everest has suffered "traffic jams" this month, as climbers battled harsh weather to make it to the summit. Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides signed up to scale the famous ...

Kathmandu, Nepal — Famed Sherpa guide Kami Rita reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 31st time Tuesday, breaking his own record for the most climbs to the top of the world's highest mountain.

Famed Sherpa guide Kami Rita reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 31st time Tuesday, breaking his own record for the most climbs to the top of the world’s highest mountain. Kami Rita ...

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

He regularly contributes to Outside’s coverage of Mount Everest and Himalayan mountaineering. Indeed, these powerful jet stream winds, which blew across the Himalayas throughout spring ...

KATHMANDU, May 27 (Reuters) - Nepali Sherpa guide Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time on Tuesday, breaking the record he set last year. The 55-year-old reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet ...

A 55-year-old Nepali man has broken his own world record for climbing Mount Everest, summiting Earth’s highest mountain for the 31st time. Kami Rita, a Sherpa climbing guide known as “Everest ...