Summiting Mount Everest in Nepal is often one of the most physically and emotionally grueling tasks you can do. It can take ...

Gauchan said that the helicopter’s instrument panel provides a color-coded safety scale of green, yellow, and red. “During ...

"Entirely changed my perception of what it means to actually climb Everest." Hikers share disturbing view from Mount Everest ...

As National Geographic noted, Everest was first summited in 1953, and in the intervening decades, it has become the "world's ...

By some metrics, Everest most certainly is the tallest mountain in the world—standing at an impressive 29,031.69 feet —but it ...

In May of 1963, National Geographic photographer and correspondent Barry C. Bishop was part of the first American team to ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

As a little girl, Bianca Adler would sit cross-legged on the floor, flipping through her family’s picture books of Mount Everest — mesmerized by the snow-dusted peaks and climbers standing at the top ...

When adventurers talk about Mount Everest, most often it's about climbing the world's highest peak. In October, Jim Morrison became the first person to ski down Everest’s most dangerous route. The ...

On 11 May, 35 years ago, Tim Macartney-Snape stepped onto the summit of Mt Everest for the second time, in doing so, becoming ...

In March, 17-year-old Bianca Adler and her dad set off from Melbourne, Australia, for the ultimate adventure: climbing Mt.