Alistair Carns, with three special forces veterans, hopes to travel from London to the summit of Everest and back within one ...

When we planned the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, we ambitiously decided to try to make a few measurements on the summit to try to answer that question. We identified three ...

All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

Join an unforgettable excursion that brings together Nepal’s finest hiking routes and height ascents. Scale Island height, ...

The expedition built on successes from the 2019 Mount Everest Expedition. Since 2010, Santiago and central Chile have faced below average precipitation and the longest drought in modern ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

The timing of your climb is equally critical. There are two good times in the year to book your Mount Everest expedition. The pre-monsoon season, from March to May, is widely considered the best ...

He was a flawed, restless man seconded by the first Everest Expedition to map the unmappable, and a consummate mountain climber who introduced the Canadian Photo-Survey Topographical Mapping ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Everest climbing-guide services — often provided by people of the Sherpa ethnic group — can cost $10,000 per expedition. At this price, the guide takes ...

Seven Nepalese porters died during the first British Mt. Everest Expedition in 1922. Since then, over 340 people have died attempting to climb Mt. Everest. Of those deaths, approximately one ...

But the "Everest Signature Expedition," offered by the Austria-based travel company Furtenbach Adventures, includes a series of provisions and services that its founder told Insider had helped ...