With its peak towering over the Earth at a staggering 29,032 feet (8,849 meters), Mount Everest is the world's tallest ...
Kilian Jornet wanted to summit 72 of the tallest peaks in the contiguous United States. He gave himself a month to do it.
And on Sunday, the McClung men reached the camp, likely making David the eldest person in the world to complete the rigorous ...
Eric Gilbertson climbed Crestone Peak carrying loads of geological survey equipment to measure the summit's true elevations.
A Walnut Creek native has now become the first person to ski the North Face of Mount Everest via one of its most challenging ...
Mount Everest is higher than previously thought, Nepal and China said on Tuesday, settling a long-running conflict over the height of the world's tallest peak that straddles their shared border.
Radhanath Sikdar was the first person to calculate the height of Mount Everest in 1852. He did it using different stations. Yet when the world learned of the tallest peak, it wasn’t his name that ...
In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2025 and released by Lingsuiye, villagers with their oxen and horses ascend the mountain during rescue efforts to reach hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist ...
BEIJING (AP) — About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday. A severe storm ...
BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese state media said. About 350 hikers had reached a ...