More than 300 people have died climbing Mount Everest — the tallest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border. On May 10, 1996, four different expeditions attempted ...

It could be argued that Lhotse is not a separate mountain, as it’s at the centre of the gargantuan Everest massif, which also ...

It spent the next three months in search of a way on to the mountain, exploring the valleys, glaciers and cols in the northern section of the Everest massif. For George Mallory, the only person to ...

Davo Karnicar's Sherpas assert that the body he discovered when skiing down Everest was of Scott Fisher, the Mountain Guide who died on Everest in 1996 PlanetMountain.com was sent the following news ...

highlighting the brave man behind the discovery of the ‘doorway’ to Everest in 1921 and the first mapping of the mountain and the surrounding Himalayan massif. Like many of his contemporaries ...