The world's highest mountain is buckling under the weight of its popularity. Thankfully, a few organizations have stepped in ...

Is Mount Everest on your bucket list? Here's everything you need to know about how long it takes to hike, how much it costs, ...

The intense physiological difficulties attending the attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, were described to members of the Royal Geographical Society by Major ...

It’s an extreme adventure playground that is there for the conquering – but increasingly there are distressing stories of overcrowding at the summit, pollution across the ranges and locals who ...

Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary crew supercharged ...

Now, National Geographic reports that one of its documentary teams found a boot (complete with severed foot) with a sock labeled “A.C. Irvine.” ...

She summited Rainier in July 2021. “I felt like I was climbing Everest,” Steinwald said. At the summit, she found herself wondering again: “What else can I do?” In spring 2022, she headed ...

His exploits on the world's biggest peaks are epic - he's been to the summit of Mt. Everest seven times, climbed the world's 14 highest peaks without supplemental oxygen, co-starred in the ...

Everest and descend from the summit via the north side of the mountain into Tibet. While achievable for such an accomplishment mountaineer, such a journey into Tibet without a permit would result ...

Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared along with George Mallory in 1924.

Standing on top of Mount Everest, Greg Mortimer, can hardly catch is breath. The air is so thin, it barely fills his lungs.

But planetarium-goers in San Francisco can see an opera, “Everest: Opera in the Planetarium,” as San Francisco’s Opera ...