This will be one of those rare years with fall Everest expeditions. Tyler Andrews will try for an FKT while Bargiel attempts ...

The U.S. expedition aiming to film a ski descent of the Hornbein Couloir on the North Side of Everest has aborted its attempt. Details are few, but a short report in The Himalayan Times blames ...

The American Everest Ski Project led by Jim Morrison has been on the north side of Mt. Everest this fall climbing season seeking to ski the steep Hornbein Couloir.

You could say Dr. Blake Higgins was destined to climb Mount Everest. Even though his parents — longtime owners of the American Ski Exchange in Vail — weren’t hardcore mountaineers, they did name their ...

An expert mountain guide has put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest less than a week after they left London, one of the fastest ascents on record of the world’s highest peak. Lukas ...

Mount Everest is growing taller every year, and new research suggests that the merger of two rivers thousands of years ago plays a key role in its rise.

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in ...