Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to ...

Mt. Everest may get smart solar-powered traffic lights and advisory signs, all linked to the number of climbers and weather ...

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the 2015 movie is the mountain itself. Located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border, Mount Everest ...

A particularly difficult undertaking is the crossing of the Khumbu Icefall, southwest of the Mount Everest summit ... determined with the help of drone images. The drones fly ahead of the Sherpas ...

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest ... route through the deadly Khumbu Icefall, southwest of Everest’s summit. For about a year, operators have been experimenting ...

More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted ...

Lord Clydesdale, as he was known, flew higher than anyone before him to complete the first flight over Mount Everest, using a fragile biplane with an open cockpit.

KATHMANDU -- Pemba Sherpa was at the resting spot known as The Balcony, which, at 8,430 meters, is the last level area before the summit of Mount Everest, when he decided not to keep going up.