Our mountaineering expert considers the epic, taking a look at high-profile cases and detailing how you can avoid being part ...

Climbing Mount Everest is a big deal, but it'll cost more than just your mental and physical state. The dollar cost to climb ...

A long-distance trek through Nepal’s Everest region offers lessons in Sherpa culture, rural mountain living, and humility.

On Oct. 9, Nima reached the top of the 8,027-meter (26,335-foot) Shishapangma along with his partner, Pasang Nurbu Sherpa.

Nima Rinji Sherpa’s ears are still tinged black from wind chill, an occupational hazard of climbing to heights where humans ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa’s ears are still tinged black from wind chill, an occupational hazard of climbing to heights where humans ...

A Sherpa teenager who’s won mountaineering celebrity as the youngest person ever to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks ...

‘Alpine-style’ climbs dictate that mountaineers climb without Sherpa support, supplemental oxygen, previously established camps or gear caches ... reached the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 ...

Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest ... climb the mountain using only period replica ...

Local racing is taking a breather from big-race action this weekend, but racing fans have the consolation of elite-level overseas action – The Everest in Australia and Champions’ Day in the UK.