Amateur climbers are set to be banned from scaling Mount Everest under a new law set to deter influencers and overcrowding.

Could famed explorer George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine have conquered Mount Everest nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary? Two British explorers are setting out to probe the mystery in ...

The Death Zone, above 8,000 meters on Mount Everest, is a literal physiological boundary where the human body cannot survive ...

At 18, Nima Rinji Sherpa became the youngest person to have summited the world's 14 highest mountains – accomplishing it in about two years. It took the previous record holder nearly a decade. Sherpa, ...

At 55, South Africa’s Sibusiso Vilane was among just five athletes to complete the gruelling 42.2K descent from the world’s ...

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 ...

A Dutch man and an Australian woman died of apparent altitude sickness while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in the first deaths this year on the world's highest mountain. Eric Arnold, 35, ...

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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world's highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day. The ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Shenzhen, Dec. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Geekvape didn't choose a conventional ...