A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record.

"I was so lucky to get out," a hiker tells the BBC after being caught in two days of unusually heavy snow in the Himalayas.

About 350 hikers caught in the storm have been guided to safety by rescuers, Reuters reported. They were taken to the small ...

Mount Everest is higher than previously thought, Nepal and China said on Tuesday, settling a long-running conflict over the height of the world's tallest peak that straddles their shared border.

After hiking up the northern side of Mount Everest, astronomy photographer and mountaineering enthusiast Geshuang Chen wanted ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- The trip was not in Isaac Wang’s original plan. The 33-year-old Shanghai-based IT engineer was one of ...

According to CNN, hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet have been guided to safety by rescuers. At the same time, some tourists on ...

About 900 hikers, guides and other staff stranded by a weekend blizzard in a valley on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have ...

Hikers had been trapped at nearly 16,000 feet amid the blizzard, according to local reports. No casualties have been reported ...

Majestic mountains, particularly the "eight-thousanders" of the Himalaya and Karakoram, symbolize nature's might and human ambition. Peaks like Everest and K2, renowned for their immense heights, ...

A Colorado climber died shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, his brother said Monday. Christopher ...

Mount Everest is known as the tallest peak on the planet, providing the ultimate challenge to hikers who are brave enough to tackle it. The mountain sits on the boundary between China and Nepal, and ...