Mount Everest is the world's tallest and perhaps most famed peak. It draws seasoned and amateur climbers alike and ...

Andrew Irvine went missing in 1924 alongside climbing partner George Mallory as the pair attempted to be the first to reach ...

Unraveling exactly what happened to the climbers on the 1924 expedition could have big implications for Mount Everest’s history. The first successful documented ascent of the peak happened in ...

A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.

The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest is 8,849 metres high, and rises about 250 metres above the next tallest peak in the Himalayas. However, it is considered to be an anomaly, as the next ...

In his final letter to his wife, Ruth, before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago ... his chances of reaching the world’s highest peak were “50 to 1 against us.” ...

Photo by Mount Everest Foundation/Royal Geographical Society ... even as he said his chances of reaching the world's highest peak were "50 to 1 against us." Mallory's body was found in 1999 ...

A National Geographic team found the boot and foot of whom it suspects to be Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, a 22-year-old climber who ...