A long line of climbers has been marching toward the top Everest since early today. More than 70 climbers may summit by the ...

May 18 was a busy day on Mount Everest. According to ExplorersWeb, an estimated 135 climbers reached the summit of Everest, 29,029 feet. Several more teams move ...

One man died at Camp 4 last night, and two Sherpas, evacuated from Base Camp with Acute Mountain Sickness, perished in the ...

Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...

Over the next several days, the area near the summit of Mount Everest will become crowded as expeditions attempt to reach the ...

In a historic achievement, Geeta Samota, a 35-year-old Sub Inspector with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), has ...

A weather window arrived in the Himalayas as expected. The Jetstream has moved from the tops of the highest mountain in the world, as it mysteriously does annua ...

In his latest dispatch, our Everest reporter explains the crucial work done by rope-fixing teams. Plus, one climber’s global ...

An experienced Austrian mountaineer named Lukas Furtenbach has shortened Everest trips to weeks with “flash” expeditions that used hypoxic tents. He approached the four men with the idea of cutting ...

Mount Everest climbs hit record highs 70 years after the first ascent, raising concerns over overcrowding, safety and ...

I was astonished both by her achievements — she is also the first woman to complete the “Seven Summits,” climbing the highest peaks on every continent — and by how few prominent ...