The Latest Breaking News from Everest

Food wrappers, tents, plastic and human waste being discarded by climbers staying at the mountain's base camps.

A Nepali sherpa carried a stricken stranger for six hours 1,900ft down Mount Everest after finding the man dangling in the “death zone”.

(This May 31 story has been refiled to fix the temperature to -22F, instead of 88F, in paragraph 2)

Seventy years after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first people to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain was filmed covered in piles of rubbish left by climbers

Nepal’s head of tourism says variable weather on the mountain has led to one of the deadliest years on record

A renowned U.S. mountain guide, who recently achieved the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest and two nearby peaks in less than three weeks, said on Tuesday Nepal needs to do a better job of policing the world's highest mountain to save it from garbage.

Kami Rita Sherpa had stood at the top of world just days earlier, exultant at having summited Mount Everest for a record 28th time.

Nepal’s government honoured record-holding climbers on May 29 during celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest 70 years ago.

Nepal’s government is honoring record-holding climbers during celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest 70 years ago