After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...

Jim Morrison, 50, completed the historic run on October 15 as a tribute to his late partner, Hilaree Nelson, who died in an ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the team that first conquered Mount Everest, died Thursday at age 92 in Kathmandu, Nepal [1][2]. He was part of the historic 1953 British expedition that ...

Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become ...

Edmund Hillary, a humble and witty beekeeper from New Zealand, was also one of the most accomplished mountaineers in the world. It was 1953, and Sir John Hunt brought military discipline to an ...

Until now, we knew very little about the strategy the Polish skier used to ski down Everest without bottled oxygen. Here's ...

Nick Selby reached the top of the world’s tallest mountain on May 15, fulfilling a dream since he started hiking as a kid On May 15, Nick Selby achieved a lifelong goal: summiting Mount Everest During ...

Few mountains, if any, have as much prowess for climbers, mountaineers, and skiers as Mount Everest. After all, it is the highest mountain on Earth at 8,849m (29,032 ft.). Summiting Everest is not ...

The American team has set off for the summit of Everest, with Jim Morrison aiming to attempt the first ski descent of the ...

A typical Everest expedition takes eight weeks. You have to allow your body to adapt to the altitude while on the mountain.

A wife says she upset her husband after asking him to cancel the anniversary trip he planned to Mount Everest base camp over ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kanchha Sherpa, the only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered ...