Why the gruesome task of moving dead bodies from Mount Everest is so hard - As India plans to retrieve the body of ‘Green ...

High above the clouds, at almost 30,000ft, in the thin air of the mountain's notorious 'death zone', lies the body of a man whose identity remains disputed nearly three decades after his passing.

Three more climbers have died on Everest, expedition organisers and officials said Friday, taking the toll from a deadly week on the overcrowded world’s highest peak to seven. “Two more Indian ...

The 30-year-old mystery of ‘Green Boots' in the ‘death zone’ of Mount Everest has finally been solved. For almost three ...

A traffic jam of climbers in the Everest “death zone” was blamed for two of four new deaths reported Friday, heightening concerns that the drive for profits is trumping safety on the world’s highest ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering expedition team that first conquered Mount Everest, died early Thursday, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Kanchha died ...

Under pressure after a deadly season on traffic-clogged Mount Everest, Nepal is considering tightening access to the world's highest peak, but mountaineering experts fear the proposed changes could ...

KATHMANDU — A Nepali Sherpa guide fell into a crevasse and died on Mount Everest for the third death in two weeks on the world's highest mountain, as climbers are undeterred by travel disruptions from ...

Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker’s 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after Sir Edmund ...

Scaling Mount Everest was a dream few realized before Nepal opened its side of the mountain to commercial climbing a half-century ago. This year the government issued a record number of permits, ...