About 200 bodies remain on the mountain, frozen in ice and snow. In Everest Dark, famed climber Mingma Tsiri Sherpa leads an ...

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have ...

Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker’s 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after Sir Edmund ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker’s 1963 ascent to the summit of Mount Everest came 10 years after ...

The celebrated mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died. He was 97. Whittaker, who also served as the first full-time employee of the outdoor retailer REI and ...

A massive block of ice has closed the ascent path of Mount Everest as climbing season begins. Here is what could happen.

Mount Everest remains the ultimate prestige symbol of the unprepared outdoorsman's bloated ego, covered in trash and corpses.