No longer will just any climber with ambition and a permit be able to attempt the world’s highest peak—Mount Everest. A new ...

Mount Everest towers more than 29,000 feet above sea level. ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international ...

As Nepal moves to reform safety on Mt Everest, some of the peak's most respected guides question whether the new rules will ...

Ratre, originally from a small village in Madhya Pradesh, has followed a non-traditional path to mountaineering. With no formal background in sports or adventure activities, she only discovered her ...

James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.