Nepal is planning stricter rules for Mount Everest climbers, including a possible requirement to summit a 7,000-metre peak ...

DJI, the global leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, today released new long surveying footage of the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma). Presented as a video case ...

Mount Everest dominates geography books and trivia nights as Earth's tallest mountain, standing at an impressive 29,032 feet above sea level. That number gets drilled into our heads from elementary ...

From glaciers to ancient ruins, these trails are worth every step.

India’s planned mission to retrieve Green Boots reopens Everest’s most haunting mystery, raising questions of identity, dignity, danger and closure after nearly three decades.

Park City endurance athlete and realtor Rob Lea plunked himself down on a quiet beach in Hokkaido, Japan, earlier this summer. Lea wasn’t on vacation or relaxing and enjoying a picturesque, sunny day.

For most people, the English Channel is simply the narrow stretch of sea separating England and France. For endurance swimmers, however, it is one of the toughest open-water challenges in the ...

Weather conditions and avalanches in May claimed the lives of experienced mountaineers from all over the world, including 53-year-old Shelley Johannesen, a Kamas resident and co-founder of Dash ...

Lower Hutt primary school students have successfully launched and retrieved a weather balloon which went high into the ...

Fresh from his 20th successful Everest ascent, Kenton Cool looks back on two decades of change on the world’s highest ...

From extreme races to the harshest environments, Cían Byrne meets the Irish daredevils breaking records and conquering the ...

Olympus Mons on Mars is 22 kilometres tall and 600 kilometres wide, with slopes so shallow that a person standing on it would ...