A policy advisor for Boise Mayor Lauren McLean says the mayor is focused on restoring an Amtrak segment between Boise and ...

South African entrepreneur Angela Yeung is preparing to embark on a remarkable Everest ascent to raise awareness and support ...

Trips to Mount Neroka in the Circumpolar Urals, on the border between the Komi and the Khanty-Mansi Regions, and climbing it will be a national tourist route to attract more ... the Urals into east ...

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first (and so far only) successful expedition to conquer Everest via its fiendishly ...

Introduction Nepal, home to eight of the arena’s 14 highest peaks, is a the accommodation of the glorified soul for trekkers ...

Nepal has banned solo expeditions to all the mountains above 8,000 metres inside the country, including the world's tallest Mount Everest or Mount Qomolangma, an official said on Wednesday. The ...

The revised regulations require a high-altitude support staff or mountain guide to be assigned for every two climbers for ...

All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

On the 66th anniversary of the disputed first ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia by Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger, we examine ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers will still flock to the mountain.

For those who can afford the $1,000 price tag, helicopters reduce the two-week long trek to Everest base camp to just a day -- depriving Nepalis along the overland route of a key source of revenue.