Altitude sickness is another threat Lyubova emphasizes as particularly important, and she herself suffered from a form of it ...

Mount Everest is the highest peak on Earth at 8849m. It's beautiful, magical, and also one of the most hostile environments a human being can enter. Above 8000 metres lies the notorious death zone, a ...

Forty years ago, Dick Bass became the first person credited with reaching the tallest point on the world's seven continents. After bagging six of the seven summits in the early 1980s, Bass — a ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of climbers who scaled Mount Everest over the last few days taking advantage of favorable weather conditions, have begun to return safely down the mountain. Among them ...

Kami Rita Sherpa has broken his own record for climbing to the summit of Mount Everest, reaching the peak for the 31st time on Tuesday. Now 55, Kami Rita first climbed to the top of the world's ...

NEW DELHI – British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled new heights — once again — by reaching the summit of Mount Everest for a record-breaking 19th time as a non-Sherpa climber. The 51-year-old ...

In 2006, an Australian climber was left behind on Mt. Everest after being assumed dead, but he was very much alive, and ...

Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

Raised in Melbourne, Australia, and later in the French Alps, Adler grew up surrounded by mountains and parents who believed ...

A Colorado climber died shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, his brother said Monday. Christopher ...