Nepal has sharply increased the climbing permit fees for Qomolangma, which is also known as Mount Everest in the West, and ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

This helped fund school trips and enabled students to complete the Duke of Edinburgh award. Organiser Gary Dover said ...

We were five Americans, our guide Sunil and six Sherpa porters. Our trek was from Lukla, Nepal to Mount Everest base camp.

Shane Boyd, an avid adventurer from Fermanagh, has set his sights on conquering Mount Everest as part of his mission to complete the Seven ...

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 ...

Conquering Mount Everest was once the holy grail of mountaineering. And it basically still is, though more people are making the attempt than ever. Not everyone who tries the climb makes it home — but ...