Anand and her husband made it to Everest Base Camp (EBC) on April 30, with Anand proudly wearing her Duke cap “almost every ...

Destinations include Mount Everest, K2, and many of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalayas. Madison Mountaineering also leads climbs on all of the famous Seven Summits—the highest peak ...

I have been the hero of Mount Everest. I'm regarded as such, I've talked as such. So I couldn't really complain too much if, after all this time, I had not been first on top." ...

A couple from Regina are still coming down after taking their relationship to new heights at their wedding on Mount ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

Slava Leykind, a father of three, died on July 2 at age 43, days after he took part in a Mount Everest-themed endurance ...

At 8,849 metres high, Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma in Tibetan or Sagarmāthā in Nepali, is the tallest mountain on Earth, and rises about 250 metres above the next tallest peak in the ...

Take Alaska’s Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America. Rangers there developed the Clean Mountain Can in 2002 as a solution to the waste problem at the mountain’s higher camps.

Hundreds scale Mt. Everest every year -- and many die. May 26, 2007 — -- The summit of Mt. Everest is starting to look more like a busy intersection than the top of the world. Over the past ...