Fisher died on Mt. Everest in 1996 in tragic and well-known circumstances while leading a commercial expedition organised by Mountain Madness. Francesca Colesanti, an Italian alpinist and journalist ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

Breashears summited Mount Everest five times, including with the IMAX camera in 1996, his family said. “He combined his passion for climbing and photography to become one of the world’s most ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more ...

I returned to Everest the following year. This time I was to film a documentary for the PBS science series NOVA. Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 ...