He’s at the Fox Cities PAC on February 11 as part of the Viewpoint Speaker Series. His presentation, “70 Years of Everest: Peter Hillary,” will feature authentic, spine-tingling, often hilarious ...

Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our ...

Eva Steinwald is training to climb Mount Everest this spring. If she makes it to the top, Steinwald will become the oldest American woman to summit Mount Everest and she will also have completed the ...

The first-ever all-women’s winter expedition from Bangladesh to Nepal’s Himalayan Langtang region took place in December 2024. We spoke to the country’s female mountaineers to find out the challenges ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

But they have also been used to give mountaineering teams and tourists a shortcut over challenging terrain in the Sagarmatha National Park, home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

Kanchha Sherpa bid farewell to Hillary and Norgay, and prayed for an auspicious journey as the two departed for Mt. Everest's summit to make history. He lamented on the crowds of climbers that ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more ... permits are issued each year for Everest. He said it was an “understandable step” from the government of Nepal.

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35% ... pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Fees for the less popular ...