The Latest Breaking News from Mount Everest

Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit in 1953.

N Muthamizh Selvi is back to Chennai after her exhausting climb over the highest peak in the world, scaling 8,850 metres. She recounts her 56-day journey full of grief, grit, mercy, and exhilaration

Astonishing footage has emerged of a sherpa's "almost impossible" rescue of a stricken climber from near the summit of Mount Everest.

The sherpa was guiding another client to the Everest summit on May 18 when he noticed the unnamed climber clinging to a rope and shivering from the freezing temperatures

‘I feel so sad every time,’ he said

(This May 31 story has been refiled to fix the temperature to -22F, instead of 88F, in paragraph 2)

Seventy years after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first people to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain was filmed covered in piles of rubbish left by climbers

Nepal’s head of tourism says variable weather on the mountain has led to one of the deadliest years on record

A renowned U.S. mountain guide, who recently achieved the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest and two nearby peaks in less than three weeks, said on Tuesday Nepal needs to do a better job of policing the world's highest mountain to save it from garbage.