In his latest video dispatch, Ben Ayers interviews Viorel “Wally” Stirbu, who is back at Everest for his third attempt to reach the summit ...

Everest is a huge, complex mountain of rock walls, ice and long ridges. The mountain itself straddles the border between ...

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

Inexperienced climbers could be banned from scaling Mount Everest in an effort to reduce deaths and overcrowding.

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 ...