New rules from the Nepali government not only increase fees for Everest climbers — they may also require a guide for anyone ascending the mountain.

Karl Egloff of Ecuador has run from Aconcagua Base Camp to the main and south summits and back in 8 hrs 49 min. He is ...

Further expeditions, including one on Everest itself proved the theory again ... clients with hypoxic sleeping tents, which extract oxygen from sealed canopies, simulating high-altitude conditions.

Jornet quite literally ran to the peak of Everest, back down again, and then repeated the feat. Why? Because he didn’t want to get bored at Everest base camp. ‘We went there and conditions were ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than familiar aids like bottled oxygen.

At low oxygen levels, unconsciousness and death can ... to provide xenon for a single climber to pre-acclimatise. Mount Everest is turning into the world’s highest garbage dump: Shocking map ...

they will experience approximately 33% of the oxygen we enjoy at sea-level. If one was transported to the top of Mt. Everest by plane and dropped off, they would quickly lose consciousness and die.

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...