In his obituary, Leykind — who moved with family from the Soviet Union to Minneapolis in 1988 — was remembered as "a perfect ...

The climbing season on Mount Everest peaks in late May and early June every year. Extreme weather patterns at this location ...

Mike Tobin tells PEOPLE he hopes his climb will inspire those who may be struggling with their mental health, especially ...

Her love for the mountains began at age 15, hand-in-hand with her father Ravindran, as they hiked the hills together. What ...

Mount Everest, part of the Himalayan mountain range, towers along the Nepal-Tibet border at around 8,850 meters (29,000 feet) high. Not only is it the tallest worldwide, it leaves its surrounding ...

A video showing a rare view over Mount Everest—the world's tallest mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal and Tibet—from a plane has gone viral on Instagram.. The spectacular sight was shared in a ...

On Mt. Everest, conventional acclimatizing can take up to two months while climbing up and down the mountain. Impatient mountaineers have tried many methods to speed the process of acclimatization.

Lhapka Sherpa, a Nepali Sherpa mountain guide, stands near Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, May 3, 2022, in a photo she posted on her Facebook page nine days before she climbed to the summit of ...

Mountaineers form a line as they climb Mount Everest, in Nepal, in May 2021. A different photo of a line of climbers along a precipice near the summit went viral in 2019.

A century ago, in May 1924, Popular Science covered one of the earliest attempts to scale Mount Everest. When the story hit magazine stands in 1924, the outcome of the much-anticipated expedition ...

How hard is it to hike and conquer Mount Everest? What was it like to be — literally — on top of the world? Jeno Panganiban looks back at his amazing journey.