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Beside Everest they escape notice ... According to Lakhpa Puti Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountain Academy, notes: "The Himalayan mountains are holy spots—and we, the Sherpas, worship them. Before ...

Record-breaking Everest climber Lhakpa Sherpa is documented in the Netflix film 'Mountain Queen,' directed by two-time Oscar nominee Lucy Walker.

At 61, Brian O'Malley hopes to be among the top 10 oldest people to summit Earth's highest peak. And if he succeeds, he'll be another local who holds an Everest record, joining Naperville's Lucy ...

Mt. Everest may be the world's highest peak, but it's easier to summit than other smaller mountains, like the Seven Second Summits. Three professional mountaineers explain why these shorter peaks ...

From right, Marmion Academy graduate Brian O'Malley, who at age 61 hopes this spring to be the ninth oldest climber to summit Mount Everest, poses with wife Kelley and his Aurora parents Eddie and ...

A Perth mental health charity is to benefit from a fundraising trek to the top of the world. Perth man Barry Yeaman and ...

But if climbers want to summit Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world at 29,029 feet (8,848 meters or 5.5 miles) above sea level, they have to brave what's known as the "death zone." ...

Mount Everest has suffered "traffic jams" this month, as climbers battled harsh weather to make it to the summit. Hundreds of climbers and their Sherpa guides signed up to scale the famous ...

A river’s shift 89,000 years ago may have added up to 160 feet to Everest’s height through erosion and crust rebound, linking river dynamics to mountain formation in the Himalayas.

Mount Everest has grown by around 15 to 50 metres in the last 89,000 years, and it's increasing every year. Now, scientists say that's because the mountain's water system captured a river.

A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world's highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide.. Kenton Cool, 51 ...