This program, while attractive to busy people, can be cost prohibitive for most. Furtenbach charges $154,000 to climb Mt. Everest with him on Xenon gas.

Two people died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale the world's highest peak, expedition organizers said. May 16 Remains found on Mount Everest ...

Of 7,269 people known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, only 230 have done it without the aid of supplemental oxygen.

Almost all of the English-speaking world mispronounces the mountain named for George Everest (against his wishes).

The expression goes “everyone has their own Everest to climb,” but one Illinois man took it literally and embarked on a<a ...

A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.

And I would advise against flying a drone at Mount Everest without a permit. Local police love to make an example out of people who don’t follow the rules.

Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala Reflects on Her Journey to the Top of the World In the quiet of the Himalayan winds, where oxygen is ...

Mount Everest Mass Makes History at the ‘Top of the World’ Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

Swiss mountaineers Ernst Schmied and Jurg Marmet were the third and fourth individuals to ascend Mount Everest successfully. They were members of Albert Eggler’s 1956 Swiss expedition.

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. Impressive as that is, there is plenty more to know about Everest. Think about this for a minute: The top of the mountain is covered with limestone ...