Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier today, a huge serac collapsed in Everest's Khumbu Icefall. No one was injured, but the shifting ice destroyed some of the ...

While advanced technology has tamed the elements, massive summit bottlenecks and corner-cutting budget operators are stretching safety on the world’s highest peak.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sherpa team in charge of opening a route through Everest's Khumbu Icefall is about to begin their annual high-risk job. A team ...

Kathmandu, June 4 -- year-old guide Lakpa Ringi Sherpa, this spring climbing season on Everest felt different.

After eight days of delays, mounting institutional pressure, and a week that tested the nerves of hundreds of climbers stranded at Base Camp, a joint team of mountain guides and icefall doctors ...

Climbers in Nepal’s Mount Everest Base Camp are getting antsy this week as they await the official start to the spring climbing season. But a critical delay in the Khumbu Icefall is preventing anyone ...

Dawa Jangbu Sherpa is one of 11 elite doctors who monitor the perilous slopes of Mount Everest. But he isn’t there to address medical emergencies — the mountain itself is his patient. He and a team of ...

At approximately 6:45 a.m. on April 18, 2014, a block of ice tumbled from the edge of a hanging glacier onto a popular climbing route on the south face of Mount Everest. The ice, which weighed as much ...