Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.

Reaching the top of the world and returning to London within a week without so much as stopping for a coffee in Kathmandu ...

Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides scaled Mount Everest this month in Nepal, struggling against harsh weather to ...

The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away ...

According to Nepal's Department of Mountaineering, 468 foreign climbers from 57 countries were given permits to climb Everest ...

Kathmandu rally marks 72 years since first Everest summit A rally wound through the streets of Kathmandu on Thursday, marking 72 years since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first stood atop Everest ...

Chinese students in the U.S. are scrambling to figure out their futures after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that ...

Nepal's mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day.

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary show the kit they wore when conquering Mount Everest at the British Embassy in Kathmandu, 26 June, 1953 ...

May 29 has witnessed some of the most pivotal moments in global history, affecting politics, culture, and society in profound ...

On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit of ...