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

The process intended to counter the effects of reduced oxygen is referred to as ‘acclimatizing ... Sherpas on Top of Mount Everest / John Waechter Impatient mountaineers have tried many ...

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

At low oxygen levels, unconsciousness and death ... to provide xenon for a single climber to pre-acclimatise. Mount Everest is turning into the world’s highest garbage dump: Shocking map reveals ...

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

For the mountaineers, climbing the peaks of Mount Everest is the piece de resistance ... no problems on the summit and that his blood oxygen levels were higher than those of his guides, who ...

he summited Mount Everest. Twice. Without supplemental oxygen. Without fixed ropes. And in record time. Jornet quite literally ran to the peak of Everest, back down again, and then repeated the feat.

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

Pakistan's ace mountaineer Sirbaz Ali added another feather to his cap today when he successfully scaled the world's highest mountain, the Everest, without using supplementary oxygen. Sirbaz, who had ...

“It will work this way - bottles of oxygen and hydrogen are flown and yak-ed in to base camp and then flown out and yak-ed ...