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.

Nepali Sherpa guide Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time on Tuesday, breaking the record he set last year.

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

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Famed Sherpa guide Kami Rita reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 31st time Tuesday, breaking ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 as High Camp and the South Col ...