A video showing a rare view over Mount Everest—the world's tallest mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet—from a plane has gone viral on Instagram. The spectacular sight was shared in a viral ...
Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. With a frigid –30 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, life-threatening snowstorms and avalanches are ...
Mount Everest has long been shorthand for the ultimate summit, the uncontested “top of the world.” Yet as geophysicists map ...
The first international climbers reached the top of Everest on Sunday, but that sprinkling of summiters will have to suffice for a few days. For the next several days, it will be too windy for all but ...
Editor’s Note: If you download this image for your left eye and this image for your right eye and do the cross-eyed thing you will see a stereoscopic image of the summit of Mt. Everest – from orbit.
BEIJING — An Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch — separate from the main Olympic ...
A century later, a new book captures the grand scale of the mountain and uncovers more about the expedition and the people at its center Kayla Randall - Digital Editor, Museums One hundred years ago, ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepali official said Sunday it wasn’t possible to search for a British climber and his Sherpa guide who went missing after reaching the top of Mount Everest six days ago ...
Nepal is raising the fee for the first time in about a decade. Wang Lama Humla via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the ...