May 29 1953 is arguably the most important date in mountaineering history. At around 11:30am, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Edmund Hillary became the first people to stand on the summit of ...

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 ...

Amateur climbers are set to be banned from scaling Mount Everest under a new law to deter influencers and overcrowding.

High above the clouds on Earth’s highest peak, climbers are making the arduous trek up Mount Everest. The narrow window of the spring summit season, which usually lasts from April to May, is the best ...

For Katie McCay, climbing to Mount Everest's base camp was always a dream. "I have been obsessed with Everest ever since I was a kid," McCay told Newsweek. The avid hiker has tracked her travels on ...

Another climber has died on Mount Everest, bringing the tragic toll on the world highest peak to five this month. Binod Babu Bastakoti, 37, from Lekhnath in Nepal, died on Wednesday near the south Col ...

Darby Allin commemorated his trek by planting an AEW flag at the top of the mountain. He later posted the following message on Instagram, thanking AEW and his climbing team for their respective roles ...

Sleeping with your head in a bag works. Graham Cooper and Adrian Ballinger, California mountaineers whose acclimatization for Mt. Everest included sleeping at home with their heads in hypoxic tents ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, returned from the ...

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

Above 26,000 feet, the ethical calculus shifts entirely. The bodies of the fallen become markers, grim reminders that in this ...