A group of commercial Everest climbers plan to complete their climb in a week by chemically boosting their acclimatization and performance using a new method: They will sip xenon gas just before the ...

The real risk in retirement is failing to plan for the "descent" — the psychological and lifestyle changes that occur after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The majority of guides who lead tourists up Mount Everest are Sherpas, an ethnic group. Some Sherpa guides predict that soon, no ...

A fit Brit with a dream of hiking the Himalayas has smashed world records by climbing and descending the height of Mount Everest in one solitary day — all without leaving the comforts of his suburban ...

A longtime Everest chronicler examines how much it really costs to climb Mount Everest and how costs vary by expedition type (and swankiness).

One by one, three climbers with severe frostbite crawled into advanced base camp after their summit bid. They’d been missing for five days. I was a 25-year-old medical student from the Bronx serving ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — One of the greatest mountain guides will attempt to scale the world’s highest peak for the 31st time — and possibly the 32nd — and break his own record. Kami Rita, 55, flew to Mt.

The spring climbing season has come to an end on Mt. Everest. The annual phenomenon of the Jet Stream moving several hundred miles north of the Himalayas, which allows mountaineers to attempt Mt.

Archie Thompson is climbing to Mount Everest base camp to raise money for children's charity Demelza A man who was told he would not live beyond his fourth birthday is now preparing to climb to Mount ...

A TV reporter recently climbed Mount Everest with an important goal in mind. Mike Tobin, a senior correspondent for Fox News, recently summited the tallest mountain in the world — and at the top, he ...

The Polish mountaineer achieves the Guinness World Record after linking Lhotse and Everest without oxygen in 1 day, 23 hours and 22 minutes, lowering the previous record by five days.