An experienced Nepalese Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 26th time, breaking his own record for the most climbs of the world’s highest peak, expedition organisers said. Kami Rita ...
In his final letter before he vanished on Mount Everest, George Mallory said his chances of reaching the world's highest peak ...
Ed Viesturs, known as "The Chevy truck of mountaineering," is one of the world's pre-eminent high-altitude climbers and guides. Among his many mountaineering accomplishments, he has reached the ...
So Ballinger learned to guide Everest via the South Side between 2008 and 2014. It taught him a lot. He crossed the Khumbu Icefall 31 times, nearly died there twice, and learned about both the ...
Family, friends and supporters have welcomed a veteran Sherpa guide on his return to Nepal’s capital, days after his 24th climb of Mount Everest extended his record. Kami Rita flew back from ...
It’s a topic on everyone’s mind but about which no one wants to talk. For the first half of our lives, it feels too far away. Then, suddenly, it’s so close it’s scary. Retirement and ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about extreme adventure and classic rock. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount ...
Mount Everest, standing over 29,000 feet above the surface of the sea, is the highest point on earth on which a human can walk. As such, the challenge of reaching this so-called "Third Pole" was a ...
Karolina Pakenaite completed the London Marathon as part of her training for the Everest challenge A deaf and blind university student who completed the London Marathon has said she is "ready for ...