This is a true story. A story about love, adventure and the impossible. It’s also a story about my family. In 1956 my grandfather was part of the Swiss Everest Expedition, the second in history ...

Released in 2015, this film is about the astronaut Mark Watney who got stuck in a fierce storm on Mars and NASA tried to ...

At 29,032 feet, Mount Everest is the tallest in the world. Unfortunately, not everyone who ascends makes it down. Here's how ...

In 1950, western mountaineers approached Everest through Nepal, rather than Tibet, and saw for the first time the formidable Khumbu Icefall which constitutes the mountain's southern defences.

The only woman to have scaled Mount Everest 10 times is making easy work of a steep hill in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. On a ...

Three more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to seven in a week - more than the total for the whole of last year. The three died of exhaustion while descending on Thursday.