In his latest dispatch, Ben Ayers offers advice on where to stay, what to eat, and how to manage the extreme altitude along ...

Denmark’s Thor Pedersen spent nine years, nine months, and 16 days on the road, visiting 203 countries, never once taking ...

High-altitude drone captures rare view of Mount Everest. Using a drone modified to fly in thin air, photographer Renan Ozturk captured a stunning 360-degree panorama of the roof of the world.

Only 800 people attempt to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, every year. It's not only a treacherous trek, but it's also incredibly costly.

Months ago, while preparing the route on Mount Pumori—standing at 7,161 metres, just 8 kilometres from Everest—Airlift’s drone spotted a hanging serac, a huge block of unstable ice. The expedition was ...

Japan staged its largest annual Fuji Firepower Exercise with 2,900 troops, 50 armored vehicles, and 20 aircraft, signaling rising military readiness amid East Asia tensions. The display, involving ...

The beige building Aarohan has on its façade a mural depicting a mountaineer climbing a steep ridge. It is the office of the Mountaineering Association of Krishnanagar or MAK. MAK was in the news ...

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay approaching 28,000 feet, Camp IX, Nepal, 28th May 1953. Mount Everest Expedition 1953. (Photo by George Lowe/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images) ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — One local family is grateful to welcome their daughter back home after her mountain climbing achievement. Two weeks ago, Katelyn Sims was scaling Mt. Everest, the tallest ...

David Sullivan's defibrillator on Mount Everest wound up saving a life, highlighting the importance of CPR training and access to life-saving devices in remote areas.

Climbing Mount Everest may get even harder. A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such proposals rarely become law.

Katelyn Sims remembers reading books about Mount Everest in the third grade. A couple of weeks ago, she found herself standing on top of it. Sims, 34, summited Mount Everest around 11 a.m. on May ...