Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

The cost of a permit to ascend Everest will soon hit as much as $15,000, but a veteran climber says the increase won't keep people away from the peak.

Through ‘acclimatizing’, the body produces red cells at an amplified ... Sherpas on Top of Mount Everest / John Waechter Impatient mountaineers have tried many methods to speed the process ...

As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...

The price of a permit to climb the world’s highest peak will rise 36 percent later this year. Guides believe that climbers ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

Reaching the summit of Mount Everest was once considered ... Just 30 minutes spent breathing a low dose of the noble gas can boost the body's red blood cell production enough to cut a 10-week ...

For the mountaineers, climbing the peaks of Mount Everest is the piece de resistance ... the process of "pre-acclimatizing" by boosting the body's EPO production, synthetic versions of which ...

Conquering Mount Everest is no easy feat for the body, mind — and bank account. Nepal plans to increase the price of Everest climbing permits by about 36%, the first rise in almost a decade.