Climbing influencers face an Everest ban under tough new rules designed to stop inexperienced adventurers from risking their lives on the world’s highest mountain. Amateur climbers are being banned ...

Could famed explorer George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine have conquered Mount Everest nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary? Two British explorers are setting out to probe the mystery in ...

The Death Zone, above 8,000 meters on Mount Everest, is a literal physiological boundary where the human body cannot survive ...

At 18, Nima Rinji Sherpa became the youngest person to have summited the world's 14 highest mountains – accomplishing it in about two years. It took the previous record holder nearly a decade. Sherpa, ...

At 55, South Africa’s Sibusiso Vilane was among just five athletes to complete the gruelling 42.2K descent from the world’s ...

A Colorado climber died shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, his brother said Monday. Christopher ...

A Dutch man and an Australian woman died of apparent altitude sickness while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in the first deaths this year on the world's highest mountain. Eric Arnold, 35, ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day. The ...

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