Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I never expected to find myself on Mount Everest. For seven years before that climb, I was the primary caregiver for my mother as ...

Dawa Sherpa was airlifted to Kathmandu, where doctors treated him for frostbite, severe dehydration and a fractured thigh bone.

In previous years, Pasang Sherpa (pictured, right) would now be packing up his gear, getting ready to receive his expedition and fly off to Lukla for another Everest climb. This spring, the ...

This is the moment an avalanche thundered down Mount Everest before swallowing a camp in wave of snow. The fast-moving avalanche struck a base camp on the south slope of the world’s highest mountain ...

I clawed upward. Seconds feel like hours inside snow. I punched the axe toward light and broke through. I dug myself out of what could have been my grave, coughing, disoriented, my ribs aching from ...

For three days, Nepali mountaineer Dawa Sherpa was trapped deep inside an Everest crevasse, surviving on biscuits, chocolates and chunks of ice, while ...

I never expected to find myself on Mount Everest. For seven years before that climb, I was the primary caregiver for my mother as ALS slowly dismantled her body. I learned how to lift her without ...