The Everest guide said they had 'heroically' reached the top of the world's highest peak before going missing as they descended. Now videos and photos posted in recent days by fellow climbers show ...

The prospect of standing on top of the world has lured ... hours — some of this will depend on the queue at the summit. From the summit of Mount Everest, you’ll need around a week to descend ...

It's a million dollar queue. So the fixed ropes up Everest have become a vast golf club with only one hole, and it's on the top. On a single day in May about one hundred and fifty waiting in line made ...

The small amount of oxygen on the top of Everest puts this peak near if not at human's physiological limit. And this is why Everest, if it were at a higher latitude, could very well be beyond the ...

Some physiologists opined, extrapolating from measurements obtained somewhat lower down, that at the top of Everest even an acclimatized person would be incapable of any work, perhaps including ...

which collaborated on the project and was the first group to organize an Everest clean-up in 2005. Approximate number of people who have died trying to reach the top. Most of the corpses are still ...

Think about all of the bottled oxygen consumed while waiting in a queue. What if it runs ... I had thought about Everest. I had climbed to the top of no-big-deal 22,834-foot Aconcagua without ...

After all, he was the one featured in the only photo taken at the top of Everest. The reason? Tenzing didn’t know how to operate the camera to take Hillary’s picture. However, they both stood ...

Wang Lama Humla via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the 29,032-foot-tall peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet.