A Walnut Creek native has now become the first person to ski the North Face of Mount Everest via one of its most challenging ...

Every year, hundreds of climbers attempt to summit Mount Everest. It's a feat seen by many as the ultimate mountaineering challenge but it's high-risk and difficult to complete alone. While some ...

After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...

Lhakpa Sherpa is a climber who holds the female record for the most Mount Everest summits. A new Netflix documentary reveals how Sherpa battled abuse while pursuing her climbing dreams. Sherpa is ...

The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead ...

Ang Rita Sherpa, the first man to climb Mount Everest 10 times, died of a lengthy illness on Monday, his family said, an event that fellow sherpas called a major loss to Nepal and the climbing ...

Until now, we knew very little about the strategy the Polish skier used to ski down Everest without bottled oxygen. Here's ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Famed Sherpa guide Kami Rita reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 31st time Tuesday, breaking his own record for the most climbs to the top of the world’s highest ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A 51-year-old Nepali mountaineer, nicknamed "Super Sherpa", climbed Mount Everest for a record 21st time on Wednesday, breaking his own record for the most summits of the world's ...

After sixteen of their colleagues lost their lives on the first climbing day of the year, Mount Everest's sherpa guides voted on Tuesday to end the 2014 climbing season entirely, the AFP reported.