Standing on the summit of Mount Everest feels like reaching the highest possible point on Earth. The mountain rises nearly ...

True Summit Adventures expands its Icon-Led Adventures collection as Everest legend Kami Rita Sherpa announces his ...

In her 60s, Eva Steinwald started climbing mountains. Last year, she summited Mount Everest. She shares the mental resilience tips that got her to the top.

Most people think Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, but there's another contender. Discover how Mauna Kea, a ...

Darby Allin commemorated his trek by planting an AEW flag at the top of the mountain. He later posted the following message on Instagram, thanking AEW and his climbing team for their respective roles ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Climbers tackling Mount Everest are twice as likely to make it to the summit and slightly less likely to die than two decades ago, despite a sharp increase in crowding in the ...

The Indian government has definitively identified the mountain's most famous dead body. Now comes the dangerous, expensive reality of hacking him out of the ice.

Waste left high on Everest does more than scar the mountain: it can threaten later climbers and leaves local workers and cleanup crews with the dangerous job of carrying it back down.

A Mount Everest veteran tells CBS News why retrieving "Green Boots," whose remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers, would be a perilous mission.

A hand-painted tribute to Colchester teenager Rosie Burnside-Fitch has reached the summit of Mount Everest.

A Japanese climber who was attempting the first summit of Mount Everest since a deadly quake-triggered avalanche destroyed part of base camp in April said Sunday he had turned back. Thirty-three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SEATTLE, Washington — Jim Whittaker, the first American mountain climber to summit Mount Everest more than 60 years ago, has died ...