Nirmal Purja has made headlines again, this time not for a mountaineering achievement but for allegedly breaking the rules. “Most of the climbers from an 11-member team of Lingtren Peak expedition of ...

Draft plan calls for waste rangers, higher fees, and stricter rules to tackle the tallest peak’s longstanding litter problem.

Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel has etched his name in Himalayan history, successfully completing the first-ever ski ...

While Bargiel is the first to climb and descend the mountain without bottled oxygen, Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen in 1978. Meanwhile, ...

Summit season on Everest and K2 is the “Olympics of Altitude,” where endurance, strategy, and survival replace medals as the ultimate test of human limits.

Poland's Andrzej Bargiel made history by becoming the first person to ski down Mount Everest in Nepal without using an oxygen tank, in what his team said was a "groundbreaking milestone in the world ...

Andrzej Bargiel summited Everest and skied all the way down to Base Camp without supplemental O2 on September 22, his press ...

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ESSENTIALS: Open Tuesday and Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; slight step at entrance can impede wheelchair. Everest. Towering. Majestic. Wild. Is it any wonder that ...

The years 2014 and 2015 on Mt. Everest were especially brutal, with avalanches killing Sherpa and western climbers on the South side in the Khumbu Icefall and at Base Camp. But this past spring, in ...

If climbers want to summit Mount Everest, they have to brave the "death zone" — the area above 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) in altitude, where there is so little oxygen that the body starts to die, ...