The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot ...

The Jet Stream will soon subside over the Himalayas, allowing climbers to reach the summits of the highest mountains in the ...

The Khumbu Icefall, a frozen river that moves four feet a day, flows at the foot of Mt. Everest and must be navigated to ...

on a glacier about 10 miles south of Mt. Everest. We lived in a prefabricated hut known as the "Silver Hut" because of its color. The scientific leader was Dr. Griffith Pugh and we made an ...

Mount Everest is Earth ... accounts for about 10 per cent of Everest’s annual uplift rate. The study’s co-author Adam Smith is a University College London doctoral student in Earth sciences.

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 ...

They approached from the South Col (Southeast Ridge ... will soon begin their journeys to Mt. Everest Base Camp. Most teams pursuing the southeast ridge route, via Nepal, began their ...