Karl Egloff of Ecuador has run from Aconcagua Base Camp to the main and south summits and back in 8 hrs 49 min. He is ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

Ian Taylor tackled the world's highest mountain in 2008 and has now offered insight to the realities of the challenge ...

Again, it falls to individuals to decide where to draw the line. And the pull of a summit day on Everest almost always trumps any concerns about shortcuts — doping or otherwise. After all ...

Eva Steinwald is training to climb Mount Everest this spring. If she makes it to the top, Steinwald will become the oldest American woman to summit Mount Everest and she will also have completed the ...

I would not want to expedite that experience by even a day, much less weeks. Related Article John Waechter reached the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 ft.) on May 25th, 2001. With the ascent of Mt.

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than familiar aids like bottled oxygen.

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

They have scheduled one more day for the descent ... A traffic jam meters away from the summit of Everest. Image: Vanayak Malla At high altitudes, speed is life, as climbers Inaki Ochoa de ...