Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents / Len Forkas / Hopecam Climbing Mount Everest is no small feat. But 65-year-old Len Forkas's mission to reach the summit ...

In her 60s, Eva Steinwald started climbing mountains. Last year, she summited Mount Everest. She shares the mental resilience tips that got her to the top.

In 1996, a blizzard in Everest’s notorious ‘death zone’ killed ‘Green Boots’. Now, a fresh expedition plans to retrieve his body, and establish his identity ...

Philip Henderson has told his Mount Everest story hundreds of times, but he’s not done repeating it—not by a long shot. “This is a lifetime of work I’m talking about,” Henderson, 63, recently told me.

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KATHMANDU, – A British climber beat his own record on Sunday for the most climbs of Mount Everest by a non-Sherpa, making his 19th ascent of the world’s highest mountain, a hiking official said.

Mount Everest has come back into the international spotlight and not for good reasons. Nearly a dozen people have died in the past week while attempting to climb Mount Everest. The number of deaths ...

India’s planned mission to retrieve Green Boots reopens Everest’s most haunting mystery, raising questions of identity, dignity, danger and closure after nearly three decades.