The Government of India on December 26 conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025 on mountaineer Vishwanath ...

Blizzard Traps Climbers On Everest A sudden and powerful snowstorm swept across the eastern slope of Mount Everest on Friday ...

The U.S. runner will chase Kilian Jornet's 2017 North Side record of 26 hours from Base Camp to summit. He also intends to ...

When the iconic American television show went on a 10-day trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp, the team knew they were in for ...

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

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

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

In May of 1963, National Geographic photographer and correspondent Barry C. Bishop was part of the first American team to ...

Julia Lyubova, 44, summited the tallest mountain in the world this past spring Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers influencers and viral, trending content across ...

TIBET, China – Tahoe’s own Jim Morrison is the feature of an upcoming National Geographic documentary, capturing his Oct. 15 accomplishment on Mount Everest’s (29,032 ft.) North Face. The date marks ...

Following in the footsteps of Captain John Noel and his immensely popular documentaries taken on the Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s ("Climbing Mount Everest"/"The Epic of Everest"), Frank ...

FILE - Kanchha Sherpa, 91, who was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on May 29, 1953, ...