Looking back, it seemed like an ominous signal. The first night Virginia CEO Michael MacNair slept in a tent at the base camp on Mount Everest, he was awakened by the sound of an avalanche. “I just ...

Prayer flags frame a rescue helicopter as it ferries the injured from Everest Base Camp on April 26, 2015, a day after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake devastated the camp.

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- An avalanche triggered by a massive earthquake swept across Nepal's Mount Everest region on Saturday, killing at least 10 climbers and guides, slamming into a section of the ...

American Marisa Eve Girawong has been confirmed as one of three Americans killed during the Nepal earthquake on Saturday. Girawong was climbing Mount Everest with Seattle-basedMadison Mountaineering ...

Rogers, a 45-year-old who lives in Sheridan, Wyo., was resting in Camp 1 when a devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, killing more than 7,000 people and triggering avalanches on Mount ...

Tyler Andrews had a lot on his mind when he began his second attempt this season to make the fastest-ever Everest ascent without oxygen. In addition to the climb ahead of him, a recent avalanche had ...

Jon Reiter, a Kenwood contractor, and his Australian climbing partner, Marcus Bridle, were climbing above 20,000 feet on Mount Everest early Friday when an avalanche swept down the climbing route, ...

"I was so lucky to get out," a hiker tells the BBC after being caught in two days of unusually heavy snow in the Himalayas.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Santa Monica documentary filmmaker is among those killed on Mount Everest when a massive 7.8 earthquake in Nepal triggered an avalanche. Tom Taplin traveled to Everest ...