Climbing Mt. Everest is an undeniably ambitious achievement. If this is an undertaking you wish to accomplish, here is our ...

About 3,000 of Nepal's more than 10,000 Sherpas reside in the Khumbu valley, the gateway to the southern side of Mount Everest ... Yaks provide wool for clothing, leather for shoes, dung for ...

A firefighter has climbed a Himalayan mountain in his full work kit, in preparation for an attempt to do the same on Everest ... of climbing in firefighters' gear: "You've got the movement ...