The world's highest mountain is buckling under the weight of its popularity. Thankfully, a few organizations have stepped in ...

Attending to the seemingly worsening Mount Everest waste management is a daunting task. For one, the extreme altitude is ...

Distinguished mountaineer Gerard Hommel, a veteran of six Everest expeditions, died after falling off a ladder: he slipped ...

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A giant meteorite, the size of four Mount Everests, is thought to have crashed into Earth around 3.26 billion years ago and ...

I also wanted to be in shape for high altitude climbing. I had a new goal to climb to Mount Everest base camp at about that ...

A long-distance trek through Nepal’s Everest region offers lessons in Sherpa culture, rural mountain living, and humility.

CHENNAI, (REUTERS) – Mount Everest is Earth’s tallest mountain – towering 5.5 miles above sea level – and is still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an ...

Here’s how it works. Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But will it hold that title forever? To answer this question, first we must understand how ...

Mount Fuji, a 12,000-foot peak located on the Japanese island of Honshu, is still lacking any measurable snow, extending a ...

A DUNFERMLINE man has fulfilled a 30 year-old dream to trek to Mount Everest base camp. Iain Campbell had been working for a Halbeath outdoor clothing firm in 1994 when they produced the clothes for ...