An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...

New safety measures for Mount Everest proposed by Nepal would require climbers to demonstrate previous high-altitude ...

Official data shows that since 1953’s Hillary-Norgay summit, around 9,000 mountaineers have successfully scaled Mt Everest ...

The writer became an aid worker for Mount Everest climbers during the devastating disaster. A decade later, he explores how ...

Under the proposed rules, climbers must show proof of scaling a 7,000-metre (22,965 ft) mountain in Nepal before applying for ...

The remains of an explorer from 1924 who went missing while climbing Mount Everest were eventually found through a recent National Geographic expedition, putting to bed a 100-year mystery about his ...

Nepal plans to restrict Mount Everest expeditions to experienced climbers, allowing only those who've summited a peak above 7 ...

Nepal plans to implement new restrictions on climbers aiming to summit Mt. Everest. Mountaineers must now have experience ...

According to the draft of a new law registered in the Assembly, climbers will be required to have successfully scaled at least one 7,000-metre mountain in Nepal ...

Experts have pinned the high death toll of climbers tackling Everest on overcrowding. Eight died last year, at least 12 ...

Nepal is planning to restrict expeditions to Mt Everest only to those mountaineers who have climbed at least one peak above 7,000 metres aimed at reducing deaths in the high altitude zone, a media ...

Following years of concern over the amount of climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest, a sweeping change is on the horizon which will dramatically change who can step foot on the mountain in the ...