Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

MOUNT HOOD, Ore. — Search and rescue teams recovered the body of an overdue hiker on Mount Hood on Monday, the Hood River ...

Makalu Climbing Team Retreats Shy of Summit With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

On top of the unbearable temperature, the volcanic landscape is home to lava lakes, sulfur springs, and volatile geysers — ...

When you think of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest in the Himalayas, towering at over 8.840 meters, probably comes to ...

The vast mountains are believed to be at least a billion years old, but they could date back as far as four billion years to ...

Dr Lucy Gossage, 45, who said she used to finish in last place in cross country when she was younger, ran in the dead of ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

Nepal is raising the permit fees to climb Mount Everest from $11,000 to $15,000. Income from the fees is a key source of ...