A record 274 climbers successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest in a single day from the Nepali side on Wednesday, according to hiking officials, marking the highest number of ascents ever ...

New Delhi: The story of Mount Everest began in 1831 when the Great Trigonometrical Survey was started in British India under George Everest, the Surveyor General of India. The aim was to map and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Renowned Sherpa mountain guide Kami Rita, center right, returning from Mount Everest after his record 32nd successful ascent is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Nepal celebrates its new year, which corresponds to 2082 in their local calendar, teams are flocking to Everest in what could ...

An aerial view from 2008 shows Mount Everest, also known as the Sagarmatha, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. Bloomberg photo by Adeel Halim. An aerial view from 2008 shows Mount Everest, also ...

KATMANDU, Nepal -- The story, an open secret in the crowded nylon city of Mount Everest base camp, trickled out from the high Himalayas: A British mountaineer desperate for oxygen had collapsed along ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The only surviving ...