Climbers and officials have met in Kathmandu to discuss the risks of scaling Mount Everest. The meeting comes during a record ...

Hundreds of climbers scaled Mount Everest in a single day, setting a new record with 274 successful ascents, officials said ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An unstable ice block delayed Mount Everest’s climbing season until late April, yet around 464 climbers and their ...

Mount Everest‘s guiding industry has experienced its first fatality of the 2026 climbing season on the world’s highest peak. On Sunday, May 3, a 52-year-old mountain guide named Lakpa Dende Sherpa ...

Climbing the tallest mountain on earth is such a battle—against the wind and the cold and against the snow and the thin air—that vanishingly few people even think about trying to move fast on Mount ...

A massive, unstable chunk of ice, roughly the size of a 10-story building, is blocking the Nepali access route of Mount Everest, stranding hundreds of climbers who are left unsure of when they’ll ...

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have declined significantly in recent decades—despite a dramatic increase in the ...

The celebrated mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker, who also served as the first full-time employee of the outdoor retailer REI and ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker's 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after ...

SEATTLE — Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Mountaineer Caroline Gleich documents her 2019 ascent of Mount Everest in the film, A Climb for Equality A Climb For Equality Credit Rylo Jim Whittaker, who became the first American mountaineer to ...

An alleged $20 million insurance scam on Mount Everest saw climbers subjected to staged rescues and admitted to hospitals across Kathmandu in a scheme to fraudulently claim insurance money, Nepali ...