In his latest video dispatch, our writer explains the naming debate surrounding the world’s highest peak, which has three ...

The route to the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 feet), the tallest mountain in the world, has just arrived at Camp 4 (7,900m/ 25,920 feet). This camp, also known ...

What ultimately formed Mt. Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent.

Expeditions to the high Himalayas to retrieve rock samples and map ... mountain upward. While the collision between the Indian plate and Asia was working to push the Himalayas skyward, Everest ...

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation’s ...