Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of commercial Everest climbers plan to complete their climb in a week by chemically boosting their acclimatization and ...

May 29 1953 is arguably the most important date in mountaineering history. At around 11:30am, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Edmund Hillary became the first people to stand on the summit of ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, returned from the ...