As a little girl, Bianca Adler would sit cross-legged on the floor, flipping through her family’s picture books of Mount ...

If your dream is to someday reach the highest point on earth—Mount Everest—you’re not alone. An estimated 700 to 1,000 climbing enthusiasts and thrill-seekers set out to summit Chomolungma, “Goddess ...

How does the human body cope with the world’s highest peak? At Everest’s “death zone,” oxygen levels drop so low that cells start to die and thinking becomes foggy. Climbers risk brain swelling, fluid ...

A mountaineer has made history by becoming the first person to ski down Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen, expedition organizers confirmed Thursday. Polish national Andrzej ...

The "Death Zone" is a region near the top of world's tallest mountains that earns the name because humans aren't meant to survive there. There isn't enough oxygen in the Death Zone for the human body ...

Poland's Andrzej Bargiel has become the first climber to ski down the world's highest mountain without supplemental oxygen, his team and expedition organizer said Thursday. Bargiel glided down Mount ...

At least eight people have died on Mount Everest this week, surpassing the death toll from the entire 2018 climbing season, according to multiple reports. A traffic jam of climbers in the mountain's ...

The summit of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) high. Most people can only spend a matter of minutes at the summit without extra oxygen supplies, and the area where mountaineers have been ...