IT takes most mountaineers at least 70 days to scale the world’s highest peak, as even the fittest athletes have to acclimatise their bodies to the deadly thin air on Mount Everest.  But ...

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

Victor Asenov battled sleeplessness and exhaustion for nearly two full days and covered the vertical gain equivalent of Mt.

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 ...

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

Hari Budha Magar MBE from Canterbury summited Mount Everest in 2023. The price to climb the world's tallest peak will soon increase for the first time in almost a decade. People are walking up the ...

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.

An MP will attempt to climb to the summit of Mount Everest and return to London within seven days, to raise awareness of veteran welfare. Veterans and people minister Alistair Carns, with three ...