The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...

Patrick Monday became the second Aggie in Texas A&M history to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

The Tallest Mountain on Earth Mount Everest proudly stands as the tallest mountain in the world, towering at an incredible ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

Kolkata: Three climbers from West Bengal made it to the summit of Mount Aconcagua—the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

Tragedy on Grossglockner Tragedy unfolded in Austria on the mountain Grossglockner last weekend. A 33-year old woman froze to ...

Makalu Climbing Team Retreats Shy of Summit With the retreat of the climbing team attempting a winter ascent on Makalu, the ...

Johann Peries summits the tallest mountain in Antarctica - Mount Vinson - at 4,892 metres, to become the first Sri Lankan to ...