Jon Krakauer is releasing an eight-part series defending his book 'Into Thin Air' against a YouTuber who has been criticizing ...

The author has launched a YouTube series and collection of essays to address questions raised over his 1997 book about Mount ...

It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...

But they have also been used to give mountaineering teams and tourists a shortcut over challenging terrain in the Sagarmatha National Park, home to Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996 ... that a terrible tragedy took place on the ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close. Scientists have now uncovered two colossal mountains that are a ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, a groundbreaking research, published in the ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Paulina Biskup, 38, fell victim in the tragedy in Colombia - which left her onlooking friends and partner screaming in terror. The disturbing footage shows Ms Biskup ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, currently in Davos for the World Economic Forum, expressed his condolences on the Jalgaon tragedy. He added that minister Girish Mahajan and the ...

The price to climb Mount Everest will soon increase for the first time in nearly a decade, as Nepal announces a sharp mark-up in permit fees. From September, those seeking to summit the world's ...