The world’s tallest peak has a serious trash problem. Officials hope a revised cleanup plan could finally make a difference.

Climbing Mount Everest is a costly endeavor, with standard guided expeditions ranging from USD 35,000 to USD 75,000, ...

Authorities also plan to set up waste collection and sorting points at base camps and higher camps, strengthen monitoring ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan was sixteen years old when she scaled Mount Everest. She said she was seven when she took her first trek ...

Scheme introduced over a decade ago requires climbers to pay a deposit of about £3,000 each that they can reclaim if they ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan has become the youngest Indian to ski to the South Pole. She earlier scaled Mt Everest, becoming the ...

Nepal is set to discontinue its long-standing waste deposit scheme for Mount Everest climbers, which required a $4,000 ...

Sherpas are the porters and guides who risk their lives to help others reach the summit of Everest, often with little ...

Everest today is a booming, multi-million-dollar, high-altitude industry. Guided climbs fetch six-figure sums and Base Camp, ...

Kaamya Karthikeyan, the 18-year-old daughter of an Indian Navy officer, has scripted history by becoming the youngest Indian ...

High-altitude guiding may be one of the most brutal dream jobs on earth. A longtime pro shares the good—and the bad.

Ty Andrews of Flagstaff, Ariz., achieved 8,848 metres of elevation on a treadmill set to 20 per cent, in a little over eight ...