Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.

Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to ...

A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

And despite climate worries, such is the pull of Himalayan mountaineering that the Everest Industry showed no signs of ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to make it to the summit of the world’s highest ...

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A bird flies in the backdrop of Mount Everest as seen from Namche Bajar, 27 May, 2019 ...

Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for ...

On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit of ...

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Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region's summits, ...