Dawa Sherpa was airlifted to Kathmandu, where doctors treated him for frostbite, severe dehydration and a fractured thigh bone.

A Mount Everest veteran tells CBS News why retrieving "Green Boots," whose remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers, would be a perilous mission.

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Two Indian climbers have died on Mount Everest during a record-breaking period of ascents via Nepal's southern route, as experts warn of overcrowding on the world's highest peak. "They fell ill while ...

THE mystery identity of the unknown Mount Everest climber dubbed “Green Boots” has finally been revealed after three decades. The climber had become a sombre landmark frozen into the ...

KATHMANDU, May 21 — A record number of 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, a hiking ‌official said, the highest number ever to reach the world’s tallest peak on the same day from the ...

Mount Everest, the most famous summit in the world, welcomes hundreds of people every year. Some don't make it out alive. The iconic mountain, which has seen more than 300 climbing deaths, has already ...

American climber Tyler Andrews set a new speed record using supplementary oxygen on Mount Everest on Thursday, his team told AFP, summiting the world's highest peak an hour quicker than anyone before.

In 1996, a blizzard in Everest’s notorious ‘death zone’ killed ‘Green Boots’. Now, a fresh expedition plans to retrieve his body, and establish his identity ...

This season, climbers attempted the 8,849-metre peak from the Nepal side after China closed the northern route through Tibet ...

George Mallory, the British climber, wrote to his mother to say “the ink has begun to freeze” before he disappeared on Mount ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of climbers scaled Mount Everest in a single day, setting a new record with 274 successful ascents, officials said Thursday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...