Climbers first successfully summited Antarctica's highest peak in 1966. Climbers first successfully summited Antarctica's ...

The calendar turned to May yesterday, marking go-time for climbing expeditions in the Himalayas. After a long winter wait, ...

If you want to climb the world’s tallest mountain, Nepal wants to see your résumé first. Turns out experience matters and for ...

In wake of tragedies on the world's highest mountain, Nepal has introduced a slew of measures to make Everest climbing season ...

An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...

Following years of concern over the amount of climbers — both experienced and amateur — attempting to scale Mount Everest, a major change is in the works.

Mark Drew was trekking to Everest Base Camp when he developed severe altitude sickness and needed emergency airlift for ...

In his latest video, Ben Ayers takes us inside the topsy-turvy world of air travel in Nepal’s Mount Everest region ...

The author treks to the ancestral capital of the Sherpa, and explains how the booming tourism industry has changed this ...

With the spring climbing season well underway on Mt. Everest and other Himalayan 8,000-meter peaks, elite mountain guiding company Madison Mountaineering’s expe ...

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...

Under the proposed rules, climbers must show proof of scaling a 7,000-metre (22,965 ft) mountain in Nepal before applying for ...