To climb Mount Everest, you're going to need a healthy ... You have around 20,000 feet to go to reach Everest's summit. But most of your time won't be spent hiking or climbing.

Swiss mountaineers Ernst Schmied and Jurg Marmet were the third and fourth individuals to ascend Mount Everest successfully. They were members of Albert Eggler’s 1956 Swiss expedition.

For outdoor enthusiasts, climbing Mt. Everest is the ultimate challenge. This iconic adventure requires a lot of preparation ...

While 'Rainbow Valley' sounds like a nice place to be, the reasoning behind the name is much more sinister and refers to the ...

people who have a "self-belief that they can top themselves" and a drive to seek out new goals are more likely to want to try summiting Mount Everest. Overall, Cockrell says, what he found in his ...

The volcano Mauna Kea in Hawaii can also be described as the highest mountain on Earth – if measured from its base to its ...

For Atlantan Mimi Zieman, the only woman in a 1988 expedition attempting to summit Mt. Everest, the time seemed right to goof off. So, she donned her tie-dyed tights and tap shoes and did a jaunty ...

The view from 17,598 feet above sea level was far superior to the pictures in the geography book Sandy Ihlenfeld had in ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

The Hornbein Couloir poses a fantasy ski descent that only two parties have ever attempted. Neither was successful.

In 1953, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first two people confirmed to have summitted the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest ... first person to reach the top?

the lifestyle of the Sherpa people, small tea houses that becomes ... One gets the perfect view of Mount Everest, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, and Makalu from this route. You will also be able to reach Namche ...