Two climbers from Mongolia disappeared on Mount Everest earlier this week. Bad weather slowed rescue teams from reaching the ...

Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 feet above the surface of the sea, is the highest point on earth on which a human can walk. As such, the challenge of reaching this so-called "Third Pole" was a ...

Climbers navigate the Hillary Step just below the summit of Mount Everest. Photo / AP/Alpenglow Expeditions Mount Everest is one of the most recognisable mountains in the world. Every year ...

The highest mountain on Earth? Most would say it’s Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 feet above sea level. Located in the Himalayas, it has been known as Mount Everest since the Royal ...

Sherpa in disbelief over garbage left at Mount Everest camp Sherpa breaks world record with 27th Mount Everest summit Chicago retiree becomes oldest American to climb Mount Everest Mount Everest ...

One of greatest climbing guides on Mount Everest has scaled the world’s highest peak for the 29th time, again extending his ...

Since the first conquest of Mount Everest in 1953, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, though hundreds have lost their lives attempting the trek. The famous mountain sits on the border ...

Climbing Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain (as measured from sea level), is one of the greatest physical accomplishments humans can achieve. The bitter temperatures, unpredictable ...

I write about extreme adventure and classic rock. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the tale ...

EVEREST BASE CAMP, Tibet (CNN)-- The Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday morning, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air ...

Mount Everest saw two record-breaking climbs on Sunday with a Nepali sherpa making the most ever summits and a British climber setting the record for a foreigner. Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, scaled the ...

I climbed Mount Everest on my lunch break yesterday. No, really—I did it from the safety and comfort of the Outside office here in Boulder. I tiptoed across sketchy ladder bridges in the Khumbu ...