Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Sherpa team fixed the last meters of rope to the 8,849m summit of Everest today, the Khumbu Icefall and the Lhotse Face ...

A Concord native is seeking to become the fastest person to climb Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Austrian-born Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner was 23 years old when she reached the summit of her first 8,000-meter peak. “Already from my childhood, it was my big passion to climb ...

Yesterday's Everest Day celebrations in Kathmandu marked both the 72nd anniversary of the peak's first ascent and the official closure of the 2025 season. Overall, the season featured uncertain ...