The Latest Breaking News from Mount Everest

The race for the most successful ascents of Mount Everest is still on

Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit in 1953.

N Muthamizh Selvi is back to Chennai after her exhausting climb over the highest peak in the world, scaling 8,850 metres. She recounts her 56-day journey full of grief, grit, mercy, and exhilaration

Ben Fogle reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 2018, and had the mountain’s height - 8,848m - inked on his wrist, but now he’s had second thoughts over his choice of tattoo

Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday, after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world's highest mountain.

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”.

Astonishing footage has emerged of a sherpa's "almost impossible" rescue of a stricken climber from near the summit of Mount Everest.

The sherpa was guiding another client to the Everest summit on May 18 when he noticed the unnamed climber clinging to a rope and shivering from the freezing temperatures

‘I feel so sad every time,’ he said

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