The Hornbein Couloir poses a fantasy ski descent that only two parties have ever attempted. Neither was successful.

People are only just learning how Mount Everest's Rainbow Valley got its name. Every year, hundreds of people challenges themselves to reach the summit of the world's highest peak, which sits at a ...

The reason is simple: During the ascent, assessing the path or even abandoning the course entirely if you run into trouble is ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for why Mount Everest is so much taller than the other great Himalayan peaks – and still growing. Everest is known to be growing by about 2mm a year ...

Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little ...

And honestly, these places are kind of fascinating. I mean, who needs basic sunsets when you can have volcanoes spewing lava?

Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has failed in her attempt to appeal her death sentence for embezzling US$12 billion ...

Swiss mountaineers Ernst Schmied and Jurg Marmet were the third and fourth individuals to ascend Mount Everest successfully. They were members of Albert Eggler’s 1956 Swiss expedition.

Then, fans and media turned it into the Mount Everest of sports, the most visited final four of all-time greatness ... No executives, managers, coaches, broadcasters, ballgirls, batboys or mascots ...

In 1953, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first two people confirmed to have summitted the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, young ...

Lawrence Yu believes there is a parallel between his experience of climbing Mount Everest and his role heading ... another mountain right from the bottom,” he says. “It’s going to be a ...