A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 126 ... were deployed to the region to help with disaster relief. About 7,000 people live in three ...

Nepali airlines have resumed rescue helicopter flights to the Everest region, an aviation industry official announced Tuesday ...

The number of dead from the severe earthquake in the region around Mount Everest rose to 95 on Tuesday, China's state news agency Xinhua reported as more bodies were recovered.

Mountaineer Leslie Binns gave up his dream of conquering Everest to save another climber. Show more British mountaineer and former soldier Leslie Binns was just 400 metres from achieving his ...

Courage, cowardice, foolishness, and high adventure marked the 1996 rival expeditions' efforts to reach the summit of Everest when everything went terribly wrong.

At Everest Base Camp, struck by avalanches that descended from Pumori, many international sources have cited at least 18 or 20 victims, with 61 injured and an unspecified number of people missing. The ...

Reaching the top of Mount Everest - the highest point ... "There seems to be a disaster mystique around Everest that seems to only serve to heighten the allure of the place," filmmaker and ...

An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount ...

The Nepali government has significantly increased climbing permit fees for Mount Everest or Mount Qomolangma, an official ...