Exclusive: Australian adventurers taking on Mount Everest are in a race against time after an unstable chunk of ice blocked ...

A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season ...

Mount Everest’s climbing season has opened weeks late after a massive cracked serac stalled progress through the Khumbu Icefall, one of the mountain’s most dangerous sections. The only available route ...

Mount Everest's climbing season has opened late after a massive, unstable ice block forced delays and rerouting through the hazardous Khumbu Icefall. Climbers must now pass directly beneath the ...

Two of the world's most accomplished mountain runners are planning to do something most would find unthinkable—race up and ...

Jon Krakauer, 30 years after surviving Everest’s deadliest day, still worries about the climbing season. Everest’s season is ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the ...

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why? At 8,849 metres above sea level, Everest is around 250m taller ...

About 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In Everest Dark, famed climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an ...

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