For outdoor enthusiasts, climbing Mt. Everest is the ultimate challenge. This iconic adventure requires a lot of preparation ...

But Mount Everest and its supporting cast of monstrous ... Lapka added. For me, the way to base camp was more than just a bucket list item. I also turned 50 on the trail and that morning, an ...

A few years ago, I checked my phone to find a message from my aunt: "I'm trekking to Everest Base Camp. Are you in or out?" She had recently trekked to the base camp of K2, the second highest ...

Base camp occupies a site on the gravel plain below ... is the low point of one of the three great ridges that emanate from the summit of Mount Everest. In this case the North Ridge drops ...

An eight-year-old boy has reached Mount Everest’s base camp after a nine-day trek. Last year, Frankie McMillan, from west Cumbria, climbed Greece’s Mount Olympus to become what is believed to ...

Many mountaineers use open spaces as toilets on the higher camps of Everest People climbing Mount Everest will now have to clear up their own poo and bring it back to base camp to be disposed of ...