Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The influx of climbers comes amid storms and poor visibility on the mountain. Pasang Rinzee Sherpa/AP Nearly 500 people from 57 different countries have ...

When he and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain on May 29, 1953 , one of the first things ...

Urine trouble, Mount Everest. After standing the test of time for 50 million years, the world’s tallest mountain is under threat from an unlikely source — our pee. Urine deposited on glaciers is ...

Mount Everest is more crowded than ever, with eight times more annual summits than in the 1990s and a shrinking climbing season.

Marco Siffredi was a French daredevil who disappeared after trying to snowboard from the summit of Mount Everest ...

Day 3 of our Everest Base Camp trek brings one of the biggest moments of the journey — seeing Mount Everest! 🏔️🇳🇵 After ...

Climbers have to navigate thick traffic jams, a filthy, sprawling base camp — and increasingly, death — while trying to get to the world’s highest Instagram hot spot. Renewed attention is being paid ...

The world’s tallest mountain is getting taller. Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma, has grown about 15 to 50 meters (50 to 164 feet) higher over the past 89,000 years than expected, according to ...

Our Everest columnist shares some intel on how to avoid illness during the 11-day hike. Plus, a rest day adventure in the Himalayas Getting from Kathmandu to Lukla to start the hike to Mount Everest ...

The enormous Japan Trench produced the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and remains a major seismic threat.

The first image ever taken of a human being standing atop Mount Everest was of Tenzing Norgay. When he and Edmund Hillary ...