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

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

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

Julia Lyubova, 44, summited Mount Everest in the spring of 2025. Months after her return from the tallest mountain in the world, she tells PEOPLE what climbers risk if they do not properly train for ...

Nepal plans to raise the cost of a permit to climb Mount Everest by 36%. A permit for the spring season is set to cost $15,000, up from $11,000. A veteran mountaineer says new prices will have little ...

May 29 1953 is arguably the most important date in mountaineering history. At around 11:30am, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Edmund Hillary became the first people to stand on the summit of ...

Last month, as the 2025 climbing season began on Mount Everest, Nepal’s upper house of Parliament introduced a tourism bill that includes a suite of new rules that would significantly raise the bar ...

We all know how dangerous climbing Mount Everest can be. Just in this past year, it claimed the lives of 11 people. Yet ...

A massive storm has moved in to Mount Everest at the busiest time of year for climbers, leaving dozens trapped at the highest base camp. Sherpa rescuers have found the bodies of four climbers inside a ...

Nepal and China decided to suspend climbing permits for the spring. China and Nepal are not giving permits to climbers hoping to summit Mount Everest this season. The reports that climbers won't be ...