Nepal has raised its fees for climbing the world’s highest peak by more than a third to US$15,000 (RM65,660), a government official announced recently. The Mount Everest fee hike marks a US$ ...

While Peter Hillary is one of the most celebrated adventurers on the planet in his own right, it was his father who set the ...

As of September, everyone on the mountain must be accompanied by an expert guide, improving safety but potentially ...

Shane Boyd, an avid adventurer from Fermanagh, has set his sights on conquering Mount Everest as part of his mission to complete the Seven ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7 ... of his mountaineering achievements as a climbing guide. He’s also doing a little ...

Reaching the summit of Mount ... see if we can leave home on a Monday morning, be on the summit of Everest on Thursday night, and make it home for Sunday lunch.' The crew are all experienced ...

Imagine crossing an ocean and a continent, then climbing more than 19,000 feet above sea level and finding something from ...

A BRADFORD man has conquered Mount Everest base camp to raise almost ... one other trekker and led by two Nepalese guides, climbing over 5,000 metres above sea level to reach his destination.

Jornet quite literally ran to the peak of Everest, back down again, and then repeated the feat. Why? Because he didn’t want to get bored at Everest base camp. ‘We went there and conditions were ...

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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history in 1953 as the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, it was a death-defying experience for the world to hear for the first time.