According to Nepal's Department of Mountaineering, 468 foreign climbers from 57 countries were given permits to climb Everest ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...

Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.

Nima Doma and Furdiki climbed the technically-difficult Ama Dablam (6,812m) and then arrived at Everest Base Camp in April ...

NASA shared new pictures of the Mount Everest and the Himalayas as seen from space. Look at the gigantic mountain range from the perspective of an astronaut.

KATHMANDU - A 55-year-old Nepali climber dubbed "Everest Man" reached the peak of the world's highest mountain for a record ...

The first Welshman to climb Mount Everest has said that the adventure tourism industry is becoming a “complete circus”.

A new generation of Bangladeshi climbers is rising fast. Ikramul Hasan Shakil’s record-setting Everest summit hints at the start of a comeback for the country’s mountaineering scene ...

Winston Peters flew from Kathmandu to the Everest region on Thursday, where he toured a school and a hospital created by the ...

An Aussie schoolgirl has told of the “life or death” decision she made in “pitch-black”, -20 degree gale-force conditions to abandon her dream of climbing Mount Everest.

More than twice as much global glacier mass will remain if countries restrict temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, ...