Pollution and climate change are causing immense damage to Mount Everest. Here are some efforts to conserve the mountain.

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

The Himalayas' massive heights result from a unique combination of geologic factors. Mount Everest is the world's tallest ...

A few years ago, I checked my phone to find a message from my aunt: "I'm trekking to Everest Base Camp. Are you in or out?" She had recently trekked to the base camp of K2, the second highest mountain ...

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A surprising new report has found that the world’s highest summit is growing more ... Getting to the top of Mount Everest just got a whole lot tougher. Picture: iStock The size of Mount Everest ...

The partial remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine — who disappeared a century ago while trying to become one of the first people to climb Mount Everest ... the world’s highest mountain ...

Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why? At 8,849 meters above sea level, Everest is around 250m ...

has challenged Mount Everest for the title of the world's highest mountain in a unique measurement. While Everest stands taller at 29,032 feet above sea level, Chimborazo's peak is 6,800 feet ...

LONDON -- Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a British mountaineer who might - or might not - have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest, a century after ...

before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, the 37-year-old Mallory tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world’s highest peak were "50 to 1 against us." ...

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