An all-women African team, which includes a climber who was part of the disastrous 1996 climb, plans to summit Mount Everest in 2020
This season, 11 people died on the treacherous slopes where mountaineers queued sometimes for hours for their turn at the top
Mountaineering has become big business since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Everest in 1953
Nepali mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa has set a new world record by climbing Mount Everest for a 24th time
The accident is believed to have happened either late Thursday or Friday, but there are no surviving witnesses
The death toll continued to rise in Nepal on Sunday after an earthquake devastated the heavily populated Kathmandu Valley.
Nepal has agreed to set up a relief fund for Sherpas who are killed or injured in climbing accidents after Mount Everest’s deadliest disaster to date.
Saray Khumalo and Sibusiso Vilane have returned to base camp, due to fears of a second avalanche on Mount Everest.
After 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, Nepalese guides and climbers have cancelled Everest expeditions, with anger growing over sherpas’ poor pay.
Reports claim South African climbers are safe after the deadliest ever avalanche on Mount Everest that left at least 13 Nepalese mountain guides dead.
At least 13 people have been killed in the deadliest accident on the world’s highest mountain.
Nepal may take steps to ease congestion at a steep, narrow cliff near the summit – by installing a ladder.
Climbers from China, Germany, Canada and South Korea have been killed as hundreds made a bid to summit Mount Everest at the weekend.
Joining a list of record breakers, including a blind person and a 13-year-old boy, a 73-year-old woman has become the oldest woman to climb Everest.
A new book suggests climbers were trying to transcend were five years of trench warfare that shattered the Edwardian idyll.
Reports that global warming is changing the climbing route on Everest has awakened memories of Climategate.
An aircraft taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest has crashed into a hillside near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
A team of Nepali mountaineers hopes to climb Mount Everest to clear the mountain’s "death zone" of rubbish and remove the bodies of dead climbers.
While most South Africans will be soaking up the sun this summer, Greg Benatar plans to hit the ice in a land where the sun doesn’t set.
