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

But environmental activists are using the occasion to call attention to the tons and tons of garbage — and human excrement — that have been left on Mt ... And the picture they are painting ...

More than 340 people have died trying to climb Mount Everest, according to Nepalese ... briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Put Mt. Everest (28 ... the natural air. Everest would feel, physiologically, as if it were an additional 3,000 feet higher. The air would be so thin that even the best climber would have no ...

In the early years, little was known about the physiological effects of extreme altitude, and mountaineers the world over wondered if they could possibly climb Mount Everest, the world's highest ...