Climbing teams are progressing on Mt. Everest as the spring climbing season in the Himalayas takes shape ... Climbing in the Khumbu Icefall / John Waechter This team will attempt a double-header ...

Of course, the weather can change dramatically in the Himalayas. Teams need to remain patient and move when the mountain allows. John Waechter reached the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 ft.) ...

Like many titles and place names given during the era of colonization, the Mount Everest name gave zero recognition to the title used by locals. Tibetans had, for centuries, called the peak Chomolunga ...

Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions ...

In his latest video dispatch, our writer explains the naming debate surrounding the world’s highest peak, which has three ...

Destinations include Mount Everest, K2, and several of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalayas. Madison Mountaineering also leads climbs on all of the famous Seven Summits—the highest ...

Darby Allin executed what is being considered the highest elevation kickflip EVER ... but unfortunately it won't go down in ...

In May 2019, a photo of the congestion on Mount Everest went viral ... should apply to any mountain — and not just within the Himalayas. In a statement, one international expedition operator ...

Measurements taken from nine climbers during an expedition to Everest in 1993 showed that blood oxygen saturation of climbers fell below 90% at around 4,700m (15,420ft), while at 8,000m (26,247ft ...

A commercial expedition is planning to take clients up the tallest mountain in the world in record time with the help of xenon gas. But some in the climbing and medical world worry whether the ...

Nepal is set to implement stringent new regulations for climbers seeking to summit Mount Everest, in a move that has been widely discussed among the climbing community. Under the proposed law ...