Spending time in a beautiful part of the world should be viewed as a privilege, not as a chance to dump your trash. A ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

Fifty years ago, on May 29, 1953, two men stood on the summit of Mount Everest, Chomo-lungma (Goddess Mother) to its own people. At 29,035 feet it is the highest spot on earth, and nobody had ever ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains ... slightly to the north and intersect the surface south of Everest, giving geologists a tilted view of the layers that make up the mountain. At ...

Are queues on Mount Everest resulting in a rise of fatalities on the famous mountain? Tim Mosedale is one of the UK's most experienced Everest guides. Having summited 6 times he's seen the ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby ...

I returned to Everest the following year. This time I was to film a documentary for the PBS science series NOVA. Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 ...

Tim Broad, a primary school headteacher, died a month after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Sharmila Bayliss, from Lewes, is undertaking the challenge to raise funds for Citizens Advice.