Kanchha Sherpa was among the 35-member team that put Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the world’s ...

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first expedition to successfully conquer Mount Everest, has passed away at ...

Headlines worldwide reported today that 1,000 climbers were stranded on Everest and needed rescue. That's far from the truth.

The last surviving member of the first mountaineering expedition to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest died in ...

The rise of low-cost mountain expedition operators is at least partially to blame for Mount Everest’s deadliest climbing season in recent memory, according to a noted climbing expert. Mount Everest ...

For Katie McCay, climbing to Mount Everest's base camp was always a dream. "I have been obsessed with Everest ever since I was a kid," McCay told Newsweek. The avid hiker has tracked her travels on ...

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of 1953 Everest expedition, dies at 92. He climbed as a 19-year-old porter and spent decades in ...

Nepali activist says those stranded on Tibet’s Everest side were part of tourism events, not climbing expeditions, as ...

The nearly 900 hikers, mountain guides and other staffers who were stranded by a blizzard on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have all been rescued, according to state media. A severe storm struck ...