Climbing the world's highest mountain is no easy task, but you might be surprised to learn about the most dangerous part of ...

Mount Everest's "death zone" begins at 26,247 feet and stretches until its summit. Here's what happens to your mind and body, according to those who climbed it.

Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

Julia Lyubova, 44, climbed all 29,032 feet of Mount Everest this past spring. The expert climber caught an altitude sickness ...

BEIJING — Rescuers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese state media said. About 350 hikers had reached a meeting ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the team that first conquered Mount Everest, died Thursday at age 92 in Kathmandu, Nepal [1][2]. He was part of the historic 1953 British expedition that ...