High-altitude guiding may be one of the most brutal dream jobs on earth. A longtime pro shares the good—and the bad.

The body of a 21-year-old hiker and YouTuber who died on Mt. Whitney was recovered on Monday, more than a month after he disappeared.

In the magnificence of the Himalaya theater, Mount Everest is mostly the headline. It is the giant that draws in the crowds, ...

Another body has been discovered on Mount Everest, having been exposed by melting ice. A video that has been circulating on social media shows the remains of a frozen climber and is right below.

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 ...

"It was really an amazing moment," Jim Morrison said of his history-making descent of Mount Everest A 50-year-old mountaineer made history by being the first to ski down Mount Everest's most ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Jim Morrison, a 50-year-old American skier and mountaineer, made history this week by becoming the first person to ever successfully ski down Mount Everest's North Face. Morrison descended Everest on ...

Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local time on Wednesday. An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

The storm that came spinning out of the Bay of Bengal in the north of the Indian Ocean last weekend was already notable. It pounded the Himalayas — the tallest mountains in the world — and unleashed a ...

A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...