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

Outside will be stationed in Nepal’s Mount Everest Base Camp for the 2025 spring climbing season. Here is your destination for all the news from the Himalayas. New perk: Easily find new routes ...

When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made their first successful ascent of Mount ... of Everest have done so using supplementary oxygen delivered through breathing masks (Credit: Getty Images ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayas, is exploring restricting access to the summit. Nepal has drafted a law that would require climbers to have prior experience with hiking one of the ...

A commercial expedition is planning to take clients up the tallest mountain in the world in record time with the help of xenon gas. But some in the climbing and medical world worry whether the ...

The remains of an explorer from 1924 who went missing while climbing Mount Everest were eventually found through a recent National Geographic expedition, putting to bed a 100-year mystery about his ...

Destinations include Mount Everest, K2, and several of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalayas. Madison Mountaineering also leads climbs on all of the famous Seven Summits—the highest ...

Nepal will soon limit Mount Everest climbing permits only to the ones who have already summited at least one 7,000-metre peak in the country, according to a new draft law aimed at improving safety ...

The AEW star posted a video to Instagram on Monday showing himself landing a kickflip on a skateboard at 20,958 feet while climbing Mount Everest. To the best of public knowledge, this is the ...

Kami Rita, 55, flew to Mount Everest on Sunday from Kathmandu to lead a group of climbers who will try to reach the 29,032ft summit during the spring climbing season. “I am mentally, emotionally ...