A team of rope-fixing climbers successfully scaled Mt Everest from Nepal side after they opened a climbing route to the ...

The elite Sherpa team tasked with fixing ropes to the top of Lhotse summited today, marking the first summit of the season on the Himalayan peak. Lhotse, meanin ...

Any minute, Sherpa workers will summit Everest for the first time this year. An earlier group summited Lhotse about three ...

The route to the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 feet), the tallest mountain in the world, has just arrived at Camp 4 (7,900m/ 25,920 feet). This camp, also known ...

In the rough region of the Himalayas lies a trek that weds peace, control, and elevation—a course that starts tenderly on the rolling hills of Pikey peak and rises through Nepal’s most celebrated ...

Alex Pancoe, a 39-year-old American who previously survived a brain tumor, has died during a climbing expedition of Nepal’s ...

"The two had just finished dinner and were settling into their sleeping bags, chatting casually, when Alex suddenly became ...

An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children's cancer programme, officials said on Tuesday, the second death in the Himalayan nation's ...

Expeditions to climb Mt. Everest are steadily moving to the upper mountain, hoping to summit over the next 2-4 weeks.

In his latest dispatch from the hike to Mount Everest Base Camp, the writer discusses how the booming tourism industry has ...

Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions ...

After a snowy, windy week with climbers stuck in Base Camp, a long spell of good weather is about to begin. The first summits ...