The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonably heavy snow, and a helicopter crashed in deep snowdrifts as it tried to rescue stranded ...

Nepalese authorities are weighing proposals to improve safety on the world's highest mountain, including requiring aspiring Everest climbers to first scale another peak in the country, officials said ...

The Death Zone, above 8,000 meters on Mount Everest, is a literal physiological boundary where the human body cannot survive ...

Amateur climbers are set to be banned from scaling Mount Everest under a new law to deter influencers and overcrowding. Mountaineers will be required to have conquered a 7,000m peak before attempting ...