Jamie Milligan will take on the challenge wearing his full lifeboat kit as he bids to raise vital funds for the team.

An experienced Chinese climber died while descending the world’s second-highest mountain, just a day after she reached the ...

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A team of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak ...

K2 climber killed by rockfall while descending from world’s second tallest mountain - Guan Jing had reached the summit just a ...

Guan Jing was struck by falling rocks on Tuesday while descending K2, a day after reaching its summit, a government ...

A century after the disappearance of explorer George Mallory, his photos and diary offer a valuable baseline for investigating impacts of tourism and climate change on the Tibet side of Everest.

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

High winds are punishing Mount Everest after many successful summits, stalling the efforts of teams waiting to advance up the mountain.

With her friend and Everest teammate Setsuko Kitamura, Tabei established the first Mount Everest conference in 1995, inviting all 32 women who had by then successfully climbed Everest (not all ...

New safety measures for Mount Everest proposed by Nepal would require climbers to demonstrate previous high-altitude Himalayan experience before attempting the world's tallest peak.

When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made their first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, it took more than two months of effort to reach the summit. In order to adjust to the extreme ...