"If you asked a child to draw a picture of a mountain, they would draw K2," veteran mountaineer Jake Meyer tells Insider. "It looks like the perfect equilateral triangle with an ice-cream cone, a ...
Mountains look majestic from below—but which have taken the most lives? We'll give you a hint, Mount Everest doesn't even come close. This weekend, the big blockbuster movie Everest will arrive ...
Andrea Lanfri is heading to Nepal where he will try to summit Everest. No Italian athlete with multiple amputations has ever attempted a climb above 8000. Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, ...
An American doctor has died during an attempt to scale Mount Everest, according to the US embassy in Nepal. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, of Seattle, was climbing with a Washington-state guiding service ...
An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. An curved arrow pointing right. Human bodies work best at sea level. Down here, oxygen levels are adequate for our brains and lungs.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides regained his title for the most climbs of Mount Everest after scaling the peak for the 27th time on Wednesday, just three days after a ...
Towering approximately 29,032 feet over the Himalayas (and growing every year), Mount Everest is well-known as the world’s tallest mountain. Okay, so technically, it’s only the tallest ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the 26th time, matching the record set by a fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak. Pasang ...
Bill Ratner (Narrator)Eric Simonson (Self)Charles Corfield (Self)Mike Rheinberger (Self) Robert Kirk With its 29,029 feet (8,848 meters), the mountain Everest is the place where thousands of ...
Jeff Evans is a search and rescue worker on Mount Everest and the star of the Travel Channel's "Everest Air." He took us behind how he prepared for his job. The show profiles the harrowing ...
Mr Paul Chow (right) and his friends some hundred metres before the summit of Friendship Peak in Manali, India. (Photo: Paul Chow) Global adventure tourism industry is on the rise, with some local ...
