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 ...

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 ...

R eleased in 1997 the year after he was part of a disastrous Mount Everest expedition that resulted in eight climbers being ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Thursday a record breaking expedition set off for for Everest. We're talking about the Super Sherpas Expedition, comprised of 6 extremely experienced superb Sherpa mountaineers who are heading to ...

But the "Everest Signature Expedition," offered by the Austria-based travel company Furtenbach Adventures, includes a series of provisions and services that its founder told Insider had helped ...

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

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