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

When we planned the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, we ambitiously decided to try to make a few measurements on the summit to try to answer that question. We identified three ...

George Mallory and Guy Bullock discovered the col during the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. At the time, they were exploring Tibet's West Rongbuk Glacier, hoping it might ...

All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

He was a flawed, restless man seconded by the first Everest Expedition to map the unmappable, and a consummate mountain climber who introduced the Canadian Photo-Survey Topographical Mapping ...

The expedition built on successes from the 2019 Mount Everest Expedition. Since 2010, Santiago and central Chile have faced below average precipitation and the longest drought in modern ...

The avalanche destroyed the Everest base camp and killed 22 people. In total, the 2015 quake claimed the lives of about 9,000 people. Kobusch ended his current winter expedition after weighing the ...

Last Thursday a record breaking expedition set off for for Everest. We're talking about the Super Sherpas Expedition, comprised of 6 extremely experienced superb Sherpa mountaineers who are heading to ...

The German climber had already fulfilled his season's goal when he surpassed 7,500m on Everest's Lho La-West Ridge route. On that early excursion, he climbed higher along that route in winter than ...