With climate change thawing the Arctic, Canada is boosting security by spending on both military and northern communities to ...

The Trump administration has reduced the staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and scaled back the amount of aid it delivers, saying states should take the lead.

At the summit, Sheikha Asma proudly raised the Qatari flag, a symbolic act of national pride and a powerful message for ...

Renee DeHaan, center, who trekked to Mount Everest base camp this spring on her prosthetic leg, holds up the leg while on the ...

Klara Kolouchova, 1st Czech woman to summit Everest, K2, was on expedition to world’s ninth-highest peak known as ‘Killer ...

In his latest video, Ben Ayers discusses the differences between climbing Mount Everest from Tibet in the north and Nepal in the south ...

Indias top climbers carried a nuclear spying device up Nanda Devi for the CIA to watch Chinas atomic tests. Bad weather ...

The Southeast Ridge ascent passes the familiar landmarks that, over the decades, have come to define the peak: Khumbu Icefall ...

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the ...

Robert Alt, president and CEO of The Buckeye Institute, climbed Mount Everest to spread his father's ashes. Alt's father, Bob "Dr. Bob" Alt, died in 2010 before reaching Everest's summit. The climb ...

On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit Mount Everest (29,032 feet) without supplemental oxygen.