The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ancient seafloor roughly 470 million years ago. Limestone near the peak ...

Arunima Sinha, a national volleyball player, defied unimaginable odds after a brutal train incident led to her leg's ...

Nepal aims to restrict inexperienced climbers as overcrowding, traffic jams and preventable deaths raise safety alarms on the ...

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

"Before going, I always saw images of beautiful Everest on TV. ... I thought it would be like that." Government takes steps ...

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...

A new law would require climbers to meet specific insurance, health, age and experience thresholds before attempting the climb.

At 55, South Africa’s Sibusiso Vilane was among just five athletes to complete the gruelling 42.2K descent from the world’s ...

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

She was a national champion at 13, retired at 16, came back to win a world championship at 19. Is Olympic gold next?