Sherpas are the porters and guides who risk their lives to help others reach the summit of Everest, often with little ...

It started in the pub, over a couple of beers. Four ex-military friends had been speaking about taking on an adventurous trip to raise money for a veterans’ charity, when one brought up the prospect ...

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 ...

In May of 1963, National Geographic photographer and correspondent Barry C. Bishop was part of the first American team to ...

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(CNN) — It was May 4, 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away from their scheduled bid for the summit of ...

This week, The Himalayan Database has updated its list of spring 2025 summits in Nepal. We examine the current trends.

Egloff already holds speed records on Denali, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, and Aconcagua. He wants to do the same with the remaining ...

Venturing up a deserted Everest to summit without supplementary oxygen and then skiing all the way down to Base Camp, avoiding or somehow descending the treacherous Khumbu Icefall on skis, seems like ...

Most teams are now settled into Everest Base Camp on the South Side. Meanwhile, on the North Side in Tibet, everything is ready, and international teams will start climbing within a few days. Base ...