All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

to Mount Everest on Sunday, aiming to raise awareness about plastic pollution and promote environmental sustainability. A flag-off ceremony marked the official start of the expedition, attended by ...

Kathmandu [Nepal], February 5 (ANI): Nepal has officially banned solo expeditions to all mountains above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest ... were banned from solo expedition in all the ...