By Alimat Aliyeva Nepal has imposed a ban on solo ascents of peaks over 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest. The new ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

The revised regulations require a high-altitude support staff or mountain guide to be assigned for every two climbers for ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Nepal has officially ended solo expeditions on Everest and other 8,000-metre peaks by amending its mountaineering regulations ...

Due to the incredible feedback from customers, the Everest Revisited exhibition, in the main Gallery at Rheged near Penrith, has been extended ...

Mount Vinson, Antarctica Climbers enjoy great success on Mount Vinson this season. The Antarctic summer runs from November ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...

Patrick Monday became the second Aggie in Texas A&M history to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

Lenka Polackova of Slovakia just recorded the Fastest Known Time ("FKT") summiting Aconcagua - one of the iconic Seven Summits.

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...