Some alpinists scoffed at a German climber's quest to ascend Mount Everest in winter. Now he's closer than ever to reaching ...

Two missing climbers are believed to be dead after part of an icy ridge collapsed on Mount Everest during a lethal ... of hardened snow overhanging the edge of a cliff — suddenly came down ...

We had already taken time to observe the great Eastern Face of Mount Everest, and more particularly the lower edge of the hanging glacier; it required but little further gazing to know that almost ...

When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the tale - they doubted that the world's highest peak would ...

The last 5,000 feet on Everest, including its distinct black pyramid ... Climbers must carefully traverse a knife-edge ridge of snow plastered to intermittent rocks. This is the most exposed ...

Experts fear overcrowding may have contributed to ice collapse on Tuesday Video shows climbers at point where Daniel Paul Paterson, 40, was last seen British climber and his guide, Pastenji Sherpa ...

Everest”, filmmaker and adventurer Alex Harz gives viewers a chance to climb the world’s most legendary mountain without ...

When asked in 1923 why one would aspire to climb Mount Everest, English mountaineer George Leigh Mallory uttered three immortal words: "Because it's there." For decades, the challenge presented by ...

Jost Kobusch on the West Ridge of Mt. Everest / Daniel Hug/terragraphy Iconic Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, stands 29,029 feet. Located in the Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border ...