While Everest basecamp is a veritable metropolis ... The entire Annapurna massif is comprised of loose rock and unreliable snow fields, drastically increasing the risk of avalanches.

It spent the next three months in search of a way on to the mountain, exploring the valleys, glaciers and cols in the northern section of the Everest massif. For George Mallory, the only person to ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

highlighting the brave man behind the discovery of the ‘doorway’ to Everest in 1921 and the first mapping of the mountain and the surrounding Himalayan massif. Like many of his contemporaries ...

To watch the Capturing Everest series on your smartphone, download the LIFE VR app, available for free on iOS and Android. Using the LIFE VR app with a Cardboard virtual reality headset provides ...

A LIMERICK man who set himself the task of taking on the Seven Summits challenge has completed six of the toughest climbs in ...

I returned to Everest the following year. This time I was to film a documentary for the PBS science series NOVA. Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 ...