From the camp you look directly up the North Col, but what really dominates the view from ABC is the Northeast shoulder of Everest with ... and see the First and Second steps up to the summit ...

If successful, Irvine and Mallory would also have beaten the first successful summit of Everest’s north face, which was ...

On 23/05 Juanito Oyarzabal and Ivan Vallejo of the TVE Expedition reached the summit of Everest via the North Face, as did Sergio Mingute and ... but two feats in particular are worth reflecting upon.

This Everest season, Karl Egloff and Tyler Andrews will try speed ascents. Kaji Sherpa holds the record, set in 1998, but not everyone believed his story.

The Hillary step ... This is not the first ski descent of Everest. The Frenchman Pierre Tardivel skied down the South Face in autumn 1992 but started from the South summit at 8760m while the Italian ...

While there are many discovered and named climbing routes on Everest, two routes are most commonly climbed: The South Col route starting from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge Standard, or The North ...

From here, climbers have a stupendous view of the upper 8,000 feet of Everest—the first glimpse ... arcs to the north. 400 feet below the South Summit, a series of rock steps often forces ...