Joy, pain and an uncomfortable truth at the heart of every climber’s story - IN FOCUS: It’s an extreme adventure playground ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

The energy unleashed by the tectonic movement toppled houses in remote Himalayan villages, rocked a nearby Tibetan holy city and rattled visitors to a Mount Everest base camp. At least 126 people ...

The climber had already left Everest base camp after a failed attempt to summit ... The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people who lives in exile in India, issued a statement ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

A new regulation may ban independent climbers on all Nepal's 8,000m peaks, including Everest. As of this fall, everyone must ...

His tracker device confirmed that he did stop for a rest at Advanced Base Camp at 5,500m ... onto the North Side of Everest toward the iconic Hornbein Couloir in Tibetan territory.

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than ...

The Tibet earthquake hit last Tuesday ... The avalanche destroyed the Everest base camp and killed 22 people. In total, the 2015 quake claimed the lives of about 9,000 people.

Tibet sits on the seismically active ... Tingri is a major stop on the way to the North Base Camp, where adventurers set out climbing Mount Everest from the north face. The region can be bitterly ...