Despite a significant increase in the number of climbs, the overall mortality rate has remained stable at around 1%. Between ...

For Women’s History Month, teachers can use these activities to guide students in exploring the lives of courageous women.

Aconcagua:  The Seven Summits During the winter months, climbing season transitions to the southern hemisphere, which includes Aconcagua, the highest mountain i ...

KATHMANDU – Nepal has announced a 36% hike in permit fees for climbing Mount Everest, the first increase in nearly a decade. The new fees, effective from September 2025, are aimed at boosting ...

A brutal stretch on Mount Everest has claimed over 330 lives, leaving climbers frozen in time. Oxygen plummets, bodies shut ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Hundreds have died attempting to climb Mount Everest and a map has pinpointed the known locations of their bodies.

There have been a few sketchy moments during Nathan Longhurst’s mission to do New Zealand’s 100-peak challenge in one season. While climbing in Aoraki National Park in November, he disturbed an ...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh planted a magnolia tree, metres away from a pair planted by the late Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in 1986.

Kathmandu [Nepal]: Nepal has officially banned solo expeditions to all mountains above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest, by amending its mountaineering regulations, according to the ...

This rule applies to all mountains above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest. "When climbing a mountain peak with an altitude of more than eight thousand meters, every two members of the ...

Nepal has hiked the cost of an Everest climbing permit by a third, arguing it will help tackle pollution and boost safety on the world’s highest mountain, the tourism chief said Tuesday.