Lhakpa Sherpa holds the world's record for most climbs of Mount Everest by a woman ... with high-altitude photography by Matthew Irving. Lhakpa sometimes crosses a crevasse on a narrow ladder ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese officials, so finding human remains on the mountain is not exactly uncommon. However, the discovery of a frozen ...

The Mount Everest Season Begins The spring climbing season will begin in the next several weeks in the Himalayas – including teams headed to Mount Everest. The ...

Irving, who had been carrying a ... the foot was discovered on Everest's Central Rongbuk Glacier, further down the mountain from Mallory's remains. "I lifted up the sock," Chin told National ...

Gupta began by acknowledging the role Sherpas play in mountaineering, particularly in dangerous and unpredictable terrains such as Mt Everest. He described two starkly contrasting types of Sherpas ...