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Two hidden mountains 100 times taller than Everest discovered by scientists �but you won’t be able to visit them
At around 620 miles high, these subsurface "islands of rock" stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest's summit of around 5.5 miles,
Avoid these 15 popular travel destinations in 2025, Fodor's experts warn �here's why
If you're planning your new year's vacations already, you might want to reconsider these destination.
Frozen foot found in a sock on Mount Everest might solve a century-old mystery
A team of National Geographic climbers and filmmakers made the discovery on the treacherous north face of the world's highest mountain last month.
Mount Everest is bizarrely still growing �here's what's driving the phenomenon
It appears Mount Everest hasn't reached peak growth.
Here's one of the world's most notorious airstrips -- where only 50 pilots are deemed capable of landing
Category C qualified pilots get to strut the spot like they are Maverick from “Top Gun.�
Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely to take years
The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year’s climbing season.
Mt. Everest tourists throw punches over the perfect selfie position
Footage captured the ludicrous moment tourist couples brawled with each other over a viewing spot near Mount Everest.
Mount Everest's filthy base camp conditions, thick traffic jams in the spotlight as two climbers believed to be dead
Climbers have to navigate thick traffic jams, a filthy, sprawling base camp -- and increasingly, death -- while trying to get to the world's highest Instagram hot spot.
Mount Everest climbers missing, presumed dead after icy collapse in treacherous 'death zone'
The pair were with a 15-person group that had reached the top of the world’s tallest peak at 29,032 feet.
Inside the high-stakes, death-defying world of scaling Mt. Everest
A new book explore the high-cost and high-stakes world that's developed around scaling Mt. Everest.
28 books that are absolute must-reads this spring
Grab a book -- and an outdoor table at your favorite coffeeshop.
Mount Everest climbers now must pick up their own poop as mountain mess festers
Ambitious climbers set to tackle Mount Everest are now being told to pick up their own up poop, as the mountain's home country Nepal aims to combat a longstanding and...
Mount Everest filmmaker and mountaineer, 68, found dead inside his home
Breashears summited Mount Everest five times, including with the IMAX camera in 1996, his family said.
Last living member of first Mountain Everest climb says mountain is now too dirty, crowded: ‘Dirtying the gods�
The last surviving member of the first mountaineering expedition to conquer Mount Everest is unhappy with the current state of the mountain.
Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is crowded and dirty now
Since the first conquest, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, and it gets more crowded every year.
Mount Everest climbers to carry their poop back down mountain in new initiative: 'Our mountain has begun to stink'
The tallest mountain in the world is estimated to have around three tons of poop laying between Camp One and Camp Four.
I climbed Mount Everest in a day, smashing a world record �all without leaving my cozy suburban home
"After 14 hours I went into one of the rooms upstairs and cried, then carried on," said Sean Gee, 37.
2-year-old believed to be youngest person ever to reach Everest base camp
A 4-year-old from the Czech Republic is thought to have held the previous base camp record.
6 people killed after Mount Everest tourist helicopter crashes
Six people were killed when a helicopter taking tourists to see the world's highest peak suddenly crashed near Mount Everest on Tuesday, officials in Nepal said.
From Titan sub to Everest, dozens have died in thrill-seeking adventures in 2023 so far
More than 85 people, and counting, have met their deaths or disappeared while climbing Everest, descending the depths of the ocean, or even in the midst of less extreme adventures,...