Lakpa Gelu Sherpa holds the incredible record for the fastest ascent of Everest. In 2003, he achieved the summit in just 10 hours and 56 minutes—a feat as astounding as it is inspiring. Picture ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

Fresh from the Himalayas, Brit Kenton Cool stands in his garage in the British Cotswolds stowing away climbing gear: a bright ...

In 2024, Monday became the third Aggie to summit Mount Everest, the world’s tallest ... isn’t something someone does on a whim, he said. Pictures of lines of people awaiting their turn at ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, and pretty much dwarf everything else on the ...

The price to climb Mount Everest will soon increase for the first time in nearly a decade, as Nepal announces a sharp mark-up ...

Everest Base Camp. Photo: Seven Summit Treks That single line -- often ... A fellow climber took a picture of Suhajda, which turned out to be the last image of him alive. Suhajda Szilard of ...

Scaling the world’s highest peak is all in a day’s work for 54-year-old Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa, a man breezily modest about having set foot on the summit of Everest more times ...

Karl Egloff of Ecuador has run from Aconcagua Base Camp to the main and south summits and back in 8 hrs 49 min. He is ...