Mount Everest proudly stands as the tallest mountain in the world, towering at an incredible 8,849 meters (29,032 feet) above sea level. It is the crown jewel of the Himalayas, attracting climbers ...

Here are seven facts about the the highest mountain in the world that you may not know. Now that you've read all you need to know about Mount Everest, do you think you'd ever want to climb it?

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

The plan for Hoedl is to arrive in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, on March 8 while the rest of his team of seven men and ...

The summit of Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro ... just to point out the facts. I'm sure an Everest climb is an arduous ordeal. Even the great Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay used primitive ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the ...

Nepal is set to increase the cost of climbing Mount Everest, marking the first price hike for the world’s highest peak in nearly a decade. The permit fee will jump by 36%, rising from $11,000 to ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Put Mt. Everest (28 deg North) at the latitude of Mt. McKinley (63 deg North) in the United States and it is likely that no climber would ever have been able to reach the summit breathing the ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of Nepal’s Khumbu region has reached the summit of the world’s tallest ...