All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean.

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

The world’s 14 highest mountains all rise from the Himalaya in Tibet and Nepal – the iconic 8,000-meter peaks, eight of which reside in Nepal. Now, Nepal’s Department of Tourism seeks to ...

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

Eva Steinwald is training to climb Mount Everest this spring. If she makes it to the top, Steinwald will become the oldest American woman to summit Mount Everest and she will also have completed the ...

Climbing Mount Everest via its most popular route will cost a third more after Nepal announced a new fee for permits on the world’s tallest mountain. For foreign climbers, the royalty fee for ...

The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain two dozen times, third-most on the all-time list. Two other Sherpas have recorded ...