Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...

We sit down with Jost Kobusch, an extreme climber whose obsession with soloing Everest in winter has taken him close to the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world's highest peak for the 31st time ...

On Easter Sunday, an Italian helicopter pilot named Simone Moro received word of a SOS call on 26,545-foot Annapurna in Nepal. Moro told Outside that a Ukrainian climber was suffering from altitude ...

Furtenbach will push the speed envelope this spring on Mount Everest. While his company will send seven teams to the summit, only one team will attempt it in one week, using Xenon gas, a ...

ATLANTA, GA — A Metro Atlanta man has begun his attempt to reach the top of the world - literally. Retired U.S. Navy ...

About 500 climbers are already in Everest Base Camp. Hundreds more are on the way. The rope fixers have reached Camp 1 and ...

Erik Weihenmayer, renowned for being the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, will speak at the University of ...

Kami Rita, 55, flew to Mount Everest on Sunday from Kathmandu to lead a group of climbers who will try to reach the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit during the spring climbing season.

Kami Rita, 55, flew to Mt. Everest on Sunday from Kathmandu, Nepal, to lead a group of climbers who will try to reach the 29,032-foot summit during the spring climbing season. “I am mentally ...