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

The already costly dream of conquering Mount Everest is going to get more expensive for mountaineers, as Nepal is planning to ...

This spring a team of Sherpas will attempt to beat the Everest speed record and the total number of individual ascents. The group, led by 16 times summiter Apa Sherpa and speed record holder Lhakpa ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some expedition organisers said that the increase, under discussion since last year, was unlikely to discourage climbers.

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 ...

Nisha Kumari, the first woman from Vadodara to summit Mount Everest, embarked on a cycle expedition from Vadodara to London ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Everest climbing-guide services — often provided by people of the Sherpa ethnic group — can cost $10,000 per expedition. At this price, the guide takes ...