If you want to climb the world’s tallest mountain, Nepal wants to see your résumé first. Turns out experience matters and for ...

An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...

In wake of tragedies on the world's highest mountain, Nepal has introduced a slew of measures to make Everest climbing season ...

Climbing teams are progressing on Mt. Everest as the spring climbing season in the Himalayas takes shape. At 29,029 feet, the highest mountain in the world endu ...

Octogenarian Carolyn Robinson sets off on a 130-kilometre trek to reach Mount Everest's South Base Camp, 5,364 metres above ...

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

We visited the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old religious center where Mount Everest climbers pray for safety ...

The calendar turned to May yesterday, marking go-time for climbing expeditions in the Himalayas. After a long winter wait, ...

Climbers first successfully summited Antarctica's highest peak in 1966. Climbers first successfully summited Antarctica's ...

New safety measures for Mount Everest proposed by Nepal would require climbers to demonstrate previous high-altitude ...

A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas ...

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s ...