Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the ...

Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, conquering the world's highest peak has been a goal of almost every serious mountaineer on the planet.

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Home to the world’s shortest runway, the 527m landing strip slopes steeply down the side of a cliff and marks the gateway to the Everest region. Each year it welcomes hundreds of thousands of ...

Everest could be scaled in less than a week, rather than the usual two months, and British pilot and former Gurkha officer, Garth Miller, is leading the first mission. Austrian guide, Lukas Furtenbach ...

A former Army officer is aiming to lead the fastest ever expedition to the summit of Mount Everest with the help of a rare gas that encourages the production of red blood cells. Garth Miller ...

Mount Ibu erupted at 07:11 a.m. (2211 GMT Tuesday) for around two minutes, the country's volcanology agency said in a statement. Clouds of thick grey ash billowed into the sky leaning towards the ...

A group of commercial Everest climbers plan to complete their climb in a week by chemically boosting their acclimatization and performance using a new method. They will sip xenon gas just before ...

A $700mn credit facility opened to cover the cost of Project Everest — which would have split the firm in two and radically redrawn the global professional services industry — still had $270mn ...

German Mountaineer, Jost Kobusch experienced the Tibet earthquake that killed 120 people on Mount Everest, but that didn't stop him from reaching his goal. Jost Kobusch on Mount Everest during an ...