Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

"To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible—giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...

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

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

Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.

A bird flies in the backdrop of Mount Everest as seen from Namche Bajar, 27 May, 2019 ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for ...

Today in history: On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Also on this ... when rioting broke out and ...

Mount Siguniang (5,276m) in Sichuan and Muztagh Ata (7,546m) in Xinjiang, China in 2006; Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world in Tibet (8,201m), in 2007; and Camel Peak (5,484m) in Sichuan ...

Agencies Mountaineer from West Bengal dies as he tries to descend from Mt Everest Just hours after standing atop the ... The Hillary Step, a 40-foot vertical rock wall at nearly 8,800 meters above sea ...

Prior to that he was a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal ... the giant spray painted rock at Mount Everest Base Camp. Mount Everest, the name most commonly used by Westerners ...