Mount Everest is named after a surveyor George Everest and surprisingly, Everest wasn't happy with that idea. A lot of people ...

Mountain climber Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest. The kids meet Junko Tabei, a mountain climber who wants to be the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest, the ...

Yesterday, 13-year-old Jordon Romero of Big Bear Lake set off to become the youngest person to summit Mt. Everest. Last week, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland from Thousand Oaks rounded Cape Horn. She ...

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 of ...

Len Forkas founded the non-profit Hopecam after witnessing his own son's loneliness while undergoing treatment for leukemia. He's now helping other children. Climbing Mount Everest is no small feat.

On the first day of school after spring break, nine British children had an unusual tale to tell regarding "what I did on my vacation": They climbed Mount Everest. At least part of it, that is.

A 63-year-old man in Reston, Virginia, plans to climb Mount Everest in order to raise money for children who are battling cancer. Len Forkas, who operates the nonprofit group Hopecam, said he wants ...

"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.