An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...

The remains of a mountaineer who attempted to scale Mount Everest 100 years ago have been found by an expedition team led by National Geographic, raising the question of whether Edmund Hilary was ...

Nepal's Sherpa community has made an unmatched contribution to Himalayan mountaineering since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa successfully climbed Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. There is ...

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during ... secretly removed from the mountain and buried elsewhere to hide the evidence. If Hillary were still alive ...

one from the world of high-altitude mountaineering, one from Yosemite and another projected by arguably the world's greatest climber, Adam Ondra. Named after Sir Edmund Hillary who, along with ...

With drone assistance promising to transform things this season on Mt Everest, we go back to our coverage of the 50th ...

One of the greatest mountain guides, Kami Rita, will attempt to scale the world’s highest peak for the 31st time — and ...

A new bill proposes much-needed reforms of rules governing climbing and cleaning up the mountain.

Ang Dawa Sherpa nearly perished on his first Everest climb because he wasn’t prepared; then he went to school in Nepal for a mountain guide degree. After moving to the US, he wasn’t surprised to find ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the ... Everest was first climbed in 1953 ...