“We took our time to take photos, hug, high-five and exalt ... “Here we are. Summit of Mount Everest,” Ballinger said in an Instagram message broadcast from the summit.

Pastemba Sherpa, a Mount Everest guide, breaks down every piece of gear Sherpa guides use to summit the world's tallest mountain. All of this equipment needs to be carried up and back, so guides ...

In 1990 MacartneySnape returned once again to Mt Everest with the idea of climbing the mountain from the sea to the summit The idea had originally been floated by adventure cameraman Michael ...

Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his ... Bishop was on the first U.S. expedition to summit Everest. (See the story from the October 1963 issue of National ...

If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave its "death zone" - the part of the mountain above 8,000 meters. At that altitude, the air has so little oxygen that the body starts to ...

The mountaineer and climber Vanessa Estol became on Saturday the first person of Uruguayan nationality to reach the summit of Mount Everest (8,848.86 meters above sea level). Vanessa, who also has ...