In his latest video dispatch, Ben Ayers offers advice on where to stay, what to eat, and how to manage the extreme altitude ...

In his latest dispatch, Ben Ayers offers advice on where to stay, what to eat, and how to manage the extreme altitude along ...

Attendees of a public hearing on June 12 at Tarboro High School listen to Brice Knight, right, address the Edgecombe County Board of Education. The board is gathering feedback on maps that would ...

It began as an innocently planned multi-day hiking trip. Morgan Chesky, a broadcaster from Dallas, was fit and wanted a challenge with his friends. He had tackled higher spots before just fine. The ...

Physicist, speaker, writer and adventurer Dr Melanie Windridge is attempting to climb Mount Everest this spring, and plans to carry out science communication from the highest place on earth. Supported ...

Well, I saw they had the Everest Base Camp trek with a mountain climb called LoBuche," she said. "That was 20k feet, and I thought I can do that, I had no idea how hard it would truly be.

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

In Part 1 of this interview series with Norbu Tenzing Norgay, a son of the great climber Tenzing Norgay, and Conrad Anker, renowned mountaineer, we covered the state of Mt. Everest today as they ...

Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three volcanoes that make up Tharsis Montes, shown in the center of this cropped topographic map of Mars. (Photo: Nasa) “We’re seeing some really significant ...

Two weeks ago, Katelyn Sims was scaling Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Sims achieved the double crown by summiting Everest, then hiking down and back up Lhotse, the world's fourth ...

David Sullivan's defibrillator on Mount Everest wound up saving a life, highlighting the importance of CPR training and access to life-saving devices in remote areas.