Eva Steinwald is training to climb Mount Everest this spring. If she makes it to the top, Steinwald will become the oldest American woman to summit Mount Everest and she will also have completed the ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

This growth may sound insignificant, but over centuries it shapes landscapes and alters the world map just slightly ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

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

Each year, an estimated 500 to 1,000 climbers attempt to summit Everest, which stands at 29,031.7 feet above sea level. The first successful ascent of Everest was made on May 29, 1953, by New ...

Two hidden mountains, more than 100 times larger than Mount Everest have been discovered deep underground. The two ‘islands of rock’ each measure more than 620 miles / 998km tall, dwarfing anything ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Image Source : AP Nepal has increased the climbing fee for Mount Everest. Nepal has increased ... including 200 foreigners, reached the summit, with nearly 2,000 people assembling at the base ...

Climbing to the top of Mount Everest is at the top of any adventurer's bucket list - but research suggests it might not actually be the world's tallest mountain. Everest, located in the Himalayas, ...