Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui died near the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday. His guide is missing and a search is underway. Photos: ...

An Australian woman who died on Mount Everest last week after developing altitude sickness fell ill just 15 minutes short of ...

Fox News Senior Correspondent Mike Tobin has completed one of the riskiest feats in the world: climbing Mount Everest. Along with a team, Tobin hiked the mountain in the Himalayas, reaching the ...

In his latest dispatch, our Everest reporter explains the crucial work done by rope-fixing teams. Plus, one climber’s global triathlon ends at Everest. The climbing season on Mount Everest is about to ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A retired attorney from Chicago who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest, and a Hong Kong teacher who is now the fastest female climber of the world's highest peak ...

For Katie McCay, climbing to Mount Everest's base camp was always a dream. "I have been obsessed with Everest ever since I was a kid," McCay told Newsweek. The avid hiker has tracked her travels on ...

It’s one of climbing’s greatest mysteries: was Everest really conquered for the first time in 1953, or did two mountaineers make it to the summit in 1924, before dying in mysterious circumstances?

After a two-month expedition in the Himalayas, Summit County resident Kevin Cook got one step closer to accomplishing his dream of summiting all seven of the summits of the world by standing atop ...