When we planned the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, we ambitiously decided to try to make a few measurements on the summit to try to answer that question. We identified three ...

A seasoned mountaineer, Aritra Roy has already summited Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Elbrus. With rigorous training from the ...

All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

The expedition built on successes from the 2019 Mount Everest Expedition. Since 2010, Santiago and central Chile have faced below average precipitation and the longest drought in modern ...

He was a flawed, restless man seconded by the first Everest Expedition to map the unmappable, and a consummate mountain climber who introduced the Canadian Photo-Survey Topographical Mapping ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

The timing of your climb is equally critical. There are two good times in the year to book your Mount Everest expedition. The pre-monsoon season, from March to May, is widely considered the best ...

Join an unforgettable excursion that brings together Nepal’s finest hiking routes and height ascents. Scale Island height, ...

“Training for Life” has been his motto, extending to the Georgia Stingrays swimming team, based at the Mountain View Aquatic Center, and where his other daughter, Shannon (later a University of ...

Agartala: In a momentous display of resilience and ambition, Assam Rifles flagged off Aritra Roy, an accomplished mountaineer ...

Last Thursday a record breaking expedition set off for for Everest. We're talking about the Super Sherpas Expedition, comprised of 6 extremely experienced superb Sherpa mountaineers who are heading to ...

But the "Everest Signature Expedition," offered by the Austria-based travel company Furtenbach Adventures, includes a series of provisions and services that its founder told Insider had helped ...