While many know that Mt. Everest is the highest point in Asia (and if we're talking from sea level, the world), few can pinpoint the year when the infamous peak was first summited. As for the other ...

Towering 8,848 meters above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth — but how did it come to be? This video ...

Mount Everest is 29,032 feet tall, and every year, hundreds attempt to climb it. Its fatality rate is 1%. Here are five ...

Forty years ago, Dick Bass became the first person credited with reaching the tallest point on the world’s seven continents.

Climbing the world's highest mountain is no easy task, but you might be surprised to learn about the most dangerous part of ...

Earth’s highest peak isn’t the point that reaches closest to outer space, and the reason has nothing to do with Everest at all. Because our planet bulges at the equator, a mountain thousands of miles ...

A nine-year-old boy and his dad have completed a gruelling 12-day trek to Mount Everest Base Camp. Rio, of Spondon in Derby, ...