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.

What began as a hiking trip with friends on the breathtaking slopes on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest turned into a frightening ordeal for 30-year-old Feng Holiday, after a rare October blizzard ...

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

BEIJING — About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount ...

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

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 ...

A Herriman man and his cousins attempt to summit Mount Everest, but were cut short due to severe snow storm on the high peak.

Hundreds of hikers and their guides were rescued from the lower slopes of the world’s tallest mountain and the surrounding ...