The Latest Breaking News from Everest

Nepal's mountains including Everest have long drawn climbers from across the world, but a growing community is exploring hidden summits promising solitude and the chance to be first to the top.

You can smell it in the air—the crispness, the falling leaves, the pumpkin spice invasion. Fall is here, and with it comes one of nature’s biggest balancing acts: temperature swings. One week, you’re in shorts; the next, you’re layering up like you’re hiking Everest. But while we humans grumble about…

He was among the 35 people who supported Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide in their historic ascent

Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first to summit the world's highest mountain.