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

When National Geographic photographer Jimmy Chin and his climbing partners discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a ...

Doctors did not think he would live but if he did, he would never walk, talk, eat, or breathe by himself. But five years on ...

A National Geographic documentary crew may have found partial remains of the foot of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, the famed ...

A century after his death, George Mallory's final words went on display in Cambridge. A century after he died trying to ...

A climbing team discovered human remains that are believed to belong to Andrew Irvine, who went missing while climbing ...

She has Mount Everest (29,032 feet) in her sights again, but first she’s looking to stay in the U.S. and scale the highest ...

And did the two ever reach the summit? Last month, below the north face of Mount Everest, a documentary team from National Geographic made a discovery that has revived these long-standing questions.

A few days before they found the boot, the team discovered an oxygen cylinder from a 1933 expedition that had also attempted to scale Mount Everest. Though that expedition failed, it had found an ...

The partial remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine — who disappeared a century ago while trying to become one of the first people to climb Mount Everest — are believed to have been found on the ...

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

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first ...