Mount Everest stands 8,849 metres tall and continues to grow by a few millimetres each year. A study conducted in the 1980s ...

Ever wondered what it must feel like to be on top of the world? Climbers who have scaled Mount Everest, the planet’s highest peak could probably describe it to you in detail. The famed mountain sits ...

A team of researchers from the China University of Geosciences and University College London has studied the formation mechanism of Everest, as well as other nearby mountains such as K2, the second ...

Did Mount Everest shrink after Nepal's massive 2015 earthquake? Has it lost a few meters of snow cover due to global warming? Is it getting taller due to shifting continental plates? To clear up these ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --A Las Vegas man spent nearly 23 hours going up and down the stairs in his home to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to ascend and descend the height of Mount Everest ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal needs money and technical expertise from international donors to measure Mount Everest afresh, officials said on Wednesday, in a move to end a longstanding row with China ...

For American climber Jim Morrison, the trek to the top of Mount Everest's north face was only the beginning of his historic ...

Jim Morrison, a 50-year-old American skier and mountaineer, made history this week by becoming the first person to ever ...