Flights to and from the Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, considered the gateway to Mount Everest, remain shut for the past three days due to adverse weather conditions.

Two English and one Irish woman have been rescued after they were trapped in a secluded valley in the Himalayas, Nepal, for ...

Three tourists and a team of guides were stranded in the Himalayas for at least three days due to severe weather conditions. The women were rescued by authorities and received medical treatment.

Few Seattle University alums have reached the heights that Jim Whittaker did—literally. On May 1, 1963, Whittaker, ’52, along with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, became the first American to summit Mount ...

Former high-altitude skier Hans Kammerlander is not impressed with Andrzej Bargiel's recent ski descent of Everest without ...

That’s precisely what professional ski mountaineer Jim Morrison did on October 15, 2025, when he became the first person in ...

The first images of the historic first ski descent of the north face of Everest, skied via the Hornbein Couloir on 15 October ...

Qomolangma's Camp IV is the most polluted site, and cleaning it requires enormous resources, Parajuli said. "We estimate a ...

When it comes to situations like Efimova’s, sheriff’s deputies call the rope experts — Bellingham Mountain Rescue, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The group began at a time when ...

Tracee Metcalfe wouldn’t have considered herself a mountaineer at the beginning of it all. Growing up in the suburbs of L.A.

Kanchha Sherpa, Dies Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to ...

Kanchha Sherpa, who has died aged 92, was the last surviving member of the pioneering British expedition to conquer Mount ...