KATHMANDU, Nepal -- An avalanche triggered by a massive earthquake swept across Nepal's Mount Everest region on Saturday, killing at least 10 climbers and guides, slamming into a section of the mountaineering base camp, and leaving an unknown number of ...

American Marisa Eve Girawong has been confirmed as one of three Americans killed during the Nepal earthquake on Saturday. Girawong was climbing Mount Everest with Seattle-basedMadison Mountaineering group when the quake trigged an avalanche on the Earth ...

A decade after surviving a devastating earthquake and avalanche on Mount Everest, adventurer Alex Staniforth is marking the anniversary with an ambitious feat: climbing 446 mountains across England and Wales. In 2015, a 19-year-old Staniforth was on his ...

Retired Los Angeles lawyer watched the avalanche bury his Sherpa. April 22, 2014— -- He spent two years and more than $100,000 in an attempt to climb Mount Everest, only to get as close as a high altitude base camp where an avalanche killed his friend ...

Rescue helicopters airlifted badly-injured climbers off Mount Everest on Sunday, a day after an earthquake-triggered avalanche killed at least 17 people, NBC News reported. Choppers arrived on Sunday to take out the first of the injured, according to ...

Having scaled the highest points of five continents, Larry Seaton left home in March on his way to the summit of the earth: Mount Everest. Part of a party of six climbers, two guides and several Sherpas, the Napa builder and outdoorsman traveled from ...