David Sharp was an English mountaineer who set out to summit Mt Everest the15th of May 2006. What happened that fateful day on Everest caused controversy and debate as he was passed by a number of ...

“An 11-year-old boy,” Mr. Breashears would recall of his younger self, “who opened a book and saw a picture of Tenzing Norgay, standing on the top of Everest ... left for dead on the ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers will still flock to the mountain.

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 126 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 188 people have been injured on the Chinese side of ...

according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas ...

Her memory is a grim reminder that removing dead bodies from Mount Everest is a pricey and potentially deadly chore, and one that is perhaps best left undone. This year, Everest's victims hailed ...

An avalanche on April 18 left 16 mountain staff dead. Two Sherpa families mourn the men they lost and try to envision a future without them. Home Browse Series Live Q&A WSJ Events From Sponsors ...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 95 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 130 people have been injured on the Chinese side of ...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 126 dead in Tibet on Tuesday, reports say. Another 188 people have been injured on the Chinese side of the ...