The climbing season on Mount Everest peaks in late May and early June every year. Extreme weather patterns at this location and altitude mean the mai ...

Last April an avalanche killed 16 Sherpas climbing Mount Everest. No one has been up the mountain since. Now the Nepal government has altered the climbing route in the hopes of making it safer.

Seventeen climbers died or went missing and are presumed dead on Mount Everest this year. It was one of the deadliest climbing seasons on the world's tallest peak. Sherpas and organizers told Al ...

As a Mt. Everest summit coach, Arnette requires that his clients already have experience climbing at least 23,000 foot tall mountains, camping in harsh winter conditions, and have some basic ...

The American ultra runner tried three times last spring to break the no-oxygen speed record on Everest. He is returning this ...

A team of four British climbers has etched their names in mountaineering history, becoming the first to summit Mount Everest using Xenon gas, significantly reducing the acclimatisation period ...

I’d recommend going in April or October when the weather is at its clearest and not so cold. Lukla is the gateway to Mount Everest. There is no road so no car can get there.

Seven people died while climbing Mount Everest this week. On Thursday, Indians Kalpana Das, 52, and Nihal Bagwan, 27, died while descending from the peak, and an Austrian climber died on the North ...