Jim Morrison was the first person to ski down the north face of Everest.

Amateur climbers are set to be banned from scaling Mount Everest under a new law set to deter influencers and overcrowding.

Conspiracy theories on the internet attribute these fossils to everything from a 'great flood' to a prank of Gandalf monster.

Mount Everest got a smidge taller Tuesday when China and Nepal agreed on the height of the world's tallest peak. The two countries had long had different measurements on how tall the mountain that ...

An American climber became the latest to perish after reaching the world's tallest summit on Monday amid concerns that overcrowding on Mount Everest is leading the highest number of deaths on the ...

The Death Zone, above 8,000 meters on Mount Everest, is a literal physiological boundary where the human body cannot survive ...

A climbing season that's been marred by the highest death toll on Mount Everest in four years has prompted officials in Nepal to review rules about who is allowed up the mountain, after complaints of ...

Steven Potter is a digital editor at Climbing. He's been flailing on rocks since 2004, has successfully injured (and unsuccessfully rehabbed) nearly every one of his fingers, and holds an MFA in ...

Mount Everest stands at 29,032 feet and is still growing. A river merger from 89,000 years ago is partly responsible for Everest’s continued height increase. The mountain gains up to 2 millimeters per ...

Kathmandu, Nepal — Renowned Sherpa mountain guide Kami Rita completed the scaling of Mount Everest for a record 30th time Wednesday, his second climb this month to the top of the world. The ...

A new adrenaline-fuelled experience is allowing travellers to see the Himalayas in a new way – and helping local Sherpa ...

In a January news release, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department compared Mount Baldy, the 10,064-foot peak that ...