A newly released map provides a stark visualization of the numerous fatalities on Mount Everest, underscoring the extreme dangers faced by climbers Since 1921, over 330 people have died while ...

Using a method developed by his father and perfected at home in the Canadian Rockies, Wheeler was able to create the first map of Everest and one that is still in use today. Watch Wheeler’s Everest.

Two undiscovered mountains that are 100 times higher than Everest have been discovered by experts, changing the course of ...

A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent. India charged across ...

He was a flawed, restless man seconded by the first Everest Expedition to map the unmappable, and a consummate mountain climber who introduced the Canadian Photo-Survey Topographical Mapping ...

The successful ascent of Everest without supplementary oxygen is one of the great sagas of the 20th century. In addition to being a triumph of the human spirit, it raises some of the most ...