This week marks two years since the death and 95 years since the birth of Tom Hornbein, one of the great figures of American mountaineering. Best known for his 1963 first ascent of Everest’s West ...

Mount Everest's Rainbow Valley is an extremely dangerous and haunting reminder that the world's highest mountain offers no ...

Two British explorers have put George Mallory's 1920s Everest kit to the ultimate test by wearing it up a Himalayan mountain.

Julia Lyubova, 44, climbed all 29,032 feet of Mount Everest this past spring. The expert climber caught an altitude sickness ...

Five Nepali men and three French women were also receiving treatment after they were injured by the avalanche, officials said ...

The Kathmandu Post, citing local officials, reported on Tuesday that the avalanche hit the team of 15 people as they were ...

Five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides were killed when an avalanche struck Mount Yalung Ri as rescue teams are facing ...

Home to eight of the world’s ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest, Nepal attracts hundreds of climbers and trekkers every year. But avalanches remain one of the deadliest hazards on its slopes.

Mountaineer Jim Morrison hopped left on his skis, sending trickles of snow down a sheer gully on the North Face of Mount ...

A mountaineer from France and another from South Korea died during expeditions to Nepal’s Mount Ama Dablam, a picturesque but ...

Climber Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison's history-making descent of Everest's north side on skis.