KATHMANDU- As Nepal’s high mountains, including Mount Everest, have been struggling with decades of waste accumulation, the ...

Gauchan said that the helicopter’s instrument panel provides a color-coded safety scale of green, yellow, and red. “During ...

Summiting Mount Everest in Nepal is often one of the most physically and emotionally grueling tasks you can do. It can take ...

The summit of Mount Everest. Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, ...

But on 20 May 2009, former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski (USA) became the first person to complete both incredible ...

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Mount Everest stands at 29,032 feet and is still growing. A river merger from 89,000 years ago is partly responsible for Everest’s continued height increase. The mountain gains up to 2 millimeters per ...

A climbing season that's been marred by the highest death toll on Mount Everest in four years has prompted officials in Nepal to review rules about who is allowed up the mountain, after complaints of ...

An American climber became the latest to perish after reaching the world's tallest summit on Monday amid concerns that overcrowding on Mount Everest is leading the highest number of deaths on the ...

Two climbers died on Mount Everest this year as the mountaineering season in Nepal for the world's highest peak draws to an end. On average, around five climbers die on the 29,03-foot (8,848-meter) ...

Steven Potter is a digital editor at Climbing. He's been flailing on rocks since 2004, has successfully injured (and unsuccessfully rehabbed) nearly every one of his fingers, and holds an MFA in ...