When we planned the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, we ambitiously decided to try to make a few measurements on the summit to try to answer that question. We identified three ...

Join an unforgettable excursion that brings together Nepal’s finest hiking routes and height ascents. Scale Island height, ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

Many people associate Noel Odell with Mallory and Irvine's disappearance. But Odell made many other important ascents during ...

This spring a team of Sherpas will attempt to beat the Everest speed record and the total number of individual ascents. The group, led by 16 times summiter Apa Sherpa and speed record holder Lhakpa ...

All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

The German climber had already fulfilled his season's goal when he surpassed 7,500m on Everest's Lho La-West Ridge route. On that early excursion, he climbed higher along that route in winter than ...

The spring season expedition which sees high influx of climbers ... based system to a uniform fee of USD 11,000 per climber for Everest's spring season via the normal route. In regards to the ...

ANANTAPUR: Sameera Khan, a mountaineer who is a native of Anantapur, has started cycling solo from Anantapur to reach ...

Thinking about hiking to Everest Base Camp? It's one of the most epic adventures on the planet — but it's not just about throwing on a backpack and heading up the trail. The journey demands ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Everest climbing-guide services — often provided by people of the Sherpa ethnic group — can cost $10,000 per expedition. At this price, the guide takes ...

Jyotishko Biswas, a 29-year-old traveller, trekker and cyclist from Nadia has embarked on an adventure that might bag him a ...