Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Conquering Mount Everest was once the holy grail of mountaineering. And it basically still is, though more people are making ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

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FOR many years Birr man Michael Delaney has harboured a deep grá for the Great Outdoors and adventure, a desire and drive ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

On top of the unbearable temperature, the volcanic landscape is home to lava lakes, sulfur springs, and volatile geysers — ...

At 29,032ft / 8,849m tall, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, measured from sea level. Around 800 people attempt to summit the Nepaleese behemoth each year, with roughly five to ten ...

Nepal has sharply increased permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by 36 per cent and also introduced a ... Around 600 climbers, including 200 foreigners, reached the summit, with nearly 2,000 people ...

Hundreds of climbers try to scale Mount Everest and several other Himalayan peaks every year. Nepal is often criticised by mountaineering experts for allowing too many people on Everest and doing ...