Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.

Famed Sherpa guide Kami Rita broke his own record for the most climbs to the top of the world’s highest mountain.

In his latest dispatch, our Everest reporter explains the crucial work done by rope-fixing teams. Plus, one climber’s global ...

An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount ... Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. More than 300 people have ...

In this week’s Dispatches from Everest video, Ben Ayers dives into the simmering debate over this topic. And he does so from Ground Zero of the argument: the giant spray painted rock at Mount ...

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...

Adventurers Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay stand atop the world as the first climbers to reach the summit. Read more.

More than 50 climbers have reached the summit since the route opened KATHMANDU: A Filipino climber has died on Mount ... people - foreign climbers and support staff - has built up at the foot of ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds ... More than 300 people have died on Everest since then.