The man was overcome by snow blindness, according to his climbing partner.

In his latest video, Ben Ayers addresses common misconceptions about the world’s highest peak, and discusses the treatment of local workers Video loading... Mainstream coverage of Mount Everest has ...

Canadian climber Xavier Ladouceur recounts a 25-hour Everest climb with traffic jams, frostbite and dead bodies.

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- An avalanche triggered by a massive earthquake swept across Nepal's Mount Everest region on Saturday, killing at least 10 climbers and guides, slamming into a section of the ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Kanchha died ...

Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker’s 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after Sir Edmund ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Two Bay Area men hiking the Himalayas are among the thousands who died in a massive earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday. Four U.S citizens were killed in the Mt. Everest base ...

A hiker has died and 200 are stranded on Mount Everest due to heavy and sudden snowfall recorded in the mountainous northwestern and western regions of China. This was reported by state broadcaster ...

A small plane carrying tourists on a sightseeing tour of Mt. Everest crashed in Nepal Sunday, killing all 19 on board, including two U.S. citizens. The plane went down near the capital of Kathmandu ...

Arun Kumar Tiwari and Sandeep Are died while descending Everest after reaching the summit on successive days. Their deaths underline why the return through the death zone is often the mountain's most ...

About 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In Everest Dark, famed climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an ...