The 2025 climbing season in the Himalayas has begun without controversy. Climbing techniques have evolved over centuries, often creating controversy and debate.

Our Everest correspondent recently attended a pre-climb meeting held by guiding company Seven Summit Treks in downtown ...

A woman is climbing Mount Everest as part of a challenge to summit seven of the world's highest peaks, and aims to shine a ...

A new bill proposes much-needed reforms of rules governing climbing and cleaning up the mountain.

Arriving on Mount Everest ... final push to Everest's 8,849-metre summit, where the vast majority of accidents take place, he said helicopters cannot safely fly. "Every year … people are dying ...

Sophia Bush's world was 'shattered' in 2015 when her Google executive ex and 'best friend' died in an Mount Everest avalanche ...

Mountaineers who are setting their sights on Mt. Everest should be aware of certain new rules that will keep them safe on the ...

With drone assistance promising to transform things this season on Mt Everest, we go back to our coverage of the 50th ...

Ang Dawa Sherpa nearly perished on his first Everest climb because he wasn’t prepared; then he went to school in Nepal for a mountain guide degree. After moving to the US, he wasn’t surprised to find ...

No longer will just any climber with ambition and a permit be able to attempt the world’s highest peak—Mount Everest. A new ...