Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On April 18, 2014, Ricardo Peña was at base camp on Mount Everest, hiking toward the Khumbu Icefall, when a block of ice tore away from the glacier, ...
A memorial near Everest Base Camp commemorates Scott Fischer, a guide who died during the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest ...
Foreign climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time since deadly avalanches halted climbing for two seasons. Just days before peak season in 2014, an avalanche left 16 dead on ...
Everest Base Camp looked cinematic and miniature racing by beneath the helicopter. Yesterday, I flew into the tent city at 17,600 feet as Nepal’s minister of tourism, Bhim Acharya—draped with a nasal ...
An avalanche on Mount Everest, the tallest peak on earth, swept through an area just below Camp 2 early Friday morning, killing six local guides. Nine more are missing following the avalanche, which ...
Climbing Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak at 29,035 feet, is not the big deal it was when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953. But it is still daunting and dangerous.
Foreign climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time since deadly avalanches halted climbing for two seasons. Just days before peak season in 2014, an avalanche left 16 dead on ...