China turned the base of the world's highest mountain into a "theme park" with 500,000 annual visitors, and today mourns a tragedy. "There are no rescue teams there," says Sebastián Álvaro, a ...

"I was so lucky to get out," a hiker tells the BBC after being caught in two days of unusually heavy snow in the Himalayas.

The Polish athlete becomes the first person to climb to and ski from Mount Everest's summit without supplementary oxygen - ...

A massive rescue operation is underway on the eastern slopes of Mount Everest after a powerful snowstorm left close to 1,000 ...

Everesting is a new category of challenge that is equal parts physical, mental and spiritual. Participants have 36-hours to climb 29,029 feet – the height of the tallest mountain in the world, Mt.

New Zealand adventurer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became first men to climb Mount Everest 60 years ago today. Six decades later, more than 3,000 people have reached ...