Two Nepali guides were also killed along with a Canadian and an Italian citizen, Gyan Kumar Mahato, a deputy superintendent ...

An avalanche on Mount Yalung Ri has killed at least seven people, including five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, ...

Nepal’s climbing community is in mourning as a tragic avalanche on Mount Yalung Ri claimed the lives of seven people, including five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, amid relentless snowstorms ...

A deadly avalanche on Nepal's Mount Yalung Ri killed seven climbers, including two Nepali guides, as rescuers face ...

Armed Police Force spokesperson Shailendra Thapa said five other people were hurt at the base camp, located at 16,070 feet.

When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually ...

Few Seattle University alums have reached the heights that Jim Whittaker did—literally. On May 1, 1963, Whittaker, ’52, along with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, became the first American to summit Mount ...

The ski run starts atop Everest, some 29,000 feet above sea level and in the death zone, where people can’t survive for long.

Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished mountaineers and a former record-holder in Alaska’s Mount Marathon race, did ...

Recent allegations of phony summit images on the world’s highest peaks ignited a debate in the mountaineering community. We ...

Earlier this month, skier and mountaineer Jim Morrison became the first person to ski down Mt. Everest's foreboding Hornbein Couloir.