This mountain may not be as high or as famous as Everest, but it's a riskier endeavor requiring a higher level of skill and fitness to successfully summit.

When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually ...

Mount Everest's "death zone" begins at 26,247 feet and stretches until its summit. Here's what happens to your mind and body, according to those who climbed it.

Mount Everest is nearly 1,000 feet (304 meters) taller than its surrounding Himalayan peaks, causing scientists to wonder exactly why the giant mountain stretched its neck out so much more than its ...

Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in part to ...

A menacing 50-degree slope and 9,000 feet straight down: that’s the terrain American mountaineer Jim Morrison tackled when he ...

Three climbers, including a foreign national, were killed and eight others were missing after an avalanche hit a climbing expedition on a Himalayan peak in Nepal, police said on Monday.