A renowned U.S. mountain guide has achieved the rare Mount Everest region “triple crown” of climbing the Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks in one season, a hiking firm said on Friday, as the ...
Mr Paul Chow (right) and his friends some hundred metres before the summit of Friendship Peak in Manali, India. (Photo: Paul Chow) Global adventure tourism industry is on the rise, with some local ...
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Mount Everest, or just Everest, located in the Himalayas and marking the border between Nepal and China, is 29,035 feet high. Eight kilometers high for those who follow the metric system, a number ...
Jeff Evans is a search and rescue worker on Mount Everest and the star of the Travel Channel's "Everest Air." He took us behind how he prepared for his job. The show profiles the harrowing ...
Former Gurkha Hari Budha Magar made mountaineering history earlier this year when he climbed Mount Everest. The army veteran, who is originally from Nepal and now lives in Canterbury, lost both ...
British mountaineer Kenton Cool has successfully completed his record-breaking 16th summit of Mount Everest, the most number of climbs by any non-Sherpa. Mr Cool, 48, reached the summit of the ...
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Mountains look majestic from below—but which have taken the most lives? We'll give you a hint, Mount Everest doesn't even come close. This weekend, the big blockbuster movie Everest will arrive ...
Dad climbing Mount Everest to raise awareness for son's rare condition Dillon Doeden is not an avid athlete – and yet he's embarking on one of the toughest physical feats: climbing Mount Everest ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the 26th time, matching the record set by a fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak. Pasang ...
An American doctor has died during an attempt to scale Mount Everest, according to the US embassy in Nepal. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, of Seattle, was climbing with a Washington-state guiding service ...