This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov ... At the South ...

There are few sights in the entire world–few iconic horizons–that can make you stop in your tracks and struggle for words.

With Jost Kobusch making his third attempt this season, it is a good time to look back at Everest's winter climbing history.

Mount Everest Is Not the Tallest Mountain! Rugged ‘Mountains’ Taller Than Everest Discovered Beneath Earth The inside of the ...

In 1953, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first two people confirmed to have summitted the world's tallest mountain, Mount Everest ... dinner at night, he [Norgay] stood ...

A FIREFIGHTER keeps his cool as he scales a mountain in his fire gear. Rhys Fitzgerald, 28, posed at the summit of Ama Dablam - a 22,000ft mountain in the Himalayas - after finishing a trial run ...

Mr Matthews, who also worked with Mr Perry on a National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Expedition to Mount Everest in 2019, says: “It’s incredibly exciting and surreal to scale these ...

In September, a National Geographic team led by celebrated filmmaker and explorer Jimmy Chin made a monumental discovery on Mount Everest's Central Rongbuk Glacier: a boot with a foot inside ...

Mount Everest is Earth’s tallest mountain – towering 8.85km above sea level – and it is still growing. Along with the rest of the Himalayas, it is continuing an inexorable uplift that dates ...

For years, internet users have claimed a veteran mountaineer survived climbing Mount Everest multiple times, only to die at home after falling off a ladder while changing a light bulb. For example ...

That night, wrapped in puffer jackets and thermals ... about man’s need to conquer the big names, like K2 and Everest, akin to planting flags throughout history, as symbols of victory.