In her 60s, Eva Steinwald started climbing mountains. Last year, she summited Mount Everest. She shares the mental resilience tips that got her to the top.

Standing on the summit of Mount Everest feels like reaching the highest possible point on Earth. The mountain rises nearly ...

1. Way back in 1924, British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared while attempting to become the first people to summit Mount Everest. Nearly 100 years later, nobody knows whether ...

Jim Whittaker, who became the first American mountaineer to summit Mt. Everest in 1963, died April 7. He was 97. Born in Seattle in 1929, Whittaker grew up with the Cascade Mountains providing a ...

A record 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, the highest number to reach the summit from the mountain’s south side in a single day, a Nepali hiking official said.

A hand-painted tribute to Colchester teenager Rosie Burnside-Fitch has reached the summit of Mount Everest.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, returned from the ...

This season, climbers attempted the 8,849-metre peak from the Nepal side after China closed the northern route through Tibet ...

A Mount Everest veteran tells CBS News why retrieving "Green Boots," whose remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers, would be a perilous mission.

The ultrarunner achieved the feat just four days after weather and logistical issues forced him to turn back near the summit Angelique Brenes is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2026.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An expert mountain guide successfully put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest on Wednesday less than a week after they left London, one of the fastest ascents on record of ...