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 Mount Everest climber Sandy Irvine from 1924 have finally been found over 100 years since the expedition took ...

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

The Nepal government drafted an Integrated Tourism Bill that states that any climber wanting to scale Mount Everest (28,029ft ...

As Nepal marked ten years since the 2015 earthquake, some scars remain—but so does the strength of the Nepali people and our ...

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...

His closest competitor for the most climbs of Mount Everest is fellow Sherpa guide ... Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

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 ...

Kami Rita, 55, flew to Mount Everest on Sunday from Kathmandu to lead a group of ... Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New ...

When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made their first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, it took more than two months of effort to reach the summit. In order to adjust to the extreme ...