The hikers are trapped at an elevation of more than 16,000 feet by heavy snow as they look to ascend the world's tallest peak.

Radhanath Sikdar was the first person to calculate the height of Mount Everest in 1852. He did it from Calcutta. Yet when the world learned of the tallest peak, it wasn’t his name that stayed.

Amid the exaggerated headlines, our articles editor provides a handy explainer for the rescue mission to save 800 people near ...

While most know that climbing to the peak of Mount Everest is dangerous, the weather is now putting hikers in the mountain's ...

Mount Everest nearly claimed the lives 880 climbers ... but now they're home sweet home! The hikers, mountain guides and other staffers were reportedly stranded by a blizzard on the China side of the ...

After striking out five times on the world’s highest peak, an American ultrarunner is questioning the feasibility of breaking ...

The nearly 900 hikers, mountain guides and other staffers who were stranded by a blizzard on the Chinese side of Mount ...

Caught in Everest’s Furry Hundreds of trekkers were recently caught in a rogue storm on the eastern flank of mighty Mount Everest in Tibet. One hiker has died, ...

A South Korean climber died on Nepal's Mera Peak during a severe storm that also stranded hundreds of climbers near Mount ...

Hundreds of hikers were trapped at an elevation of more than 4,900m after the region was hit by heavy snowfall on Friday and ...

Early-season snowfalls have stranded hikers in two mountainous areas in western China, including several hundred at the base ...

Nearly 1,000 hikers were trapped on Mount Everest when a raging snowstorm hit the eastern slope in Tibet, launching massive ...