A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest breaking her own 10-year-old record.
A British explorer is bringing an Olympic medal to the top of Mt. Everest to honor a pledge from 1924.
The effort to rescue hundreds of trekkers stranded for six days in a town near Nepal's iconic Mount Everest due to bad weather continued Monday.
Bad weather around Nepal's iconic Mount Everest has stranded more than 1,500 trekkers in the area of a town near the mountain.
Nineteen people aboard a small plane were killed Sunday when it crashed while trying to land at the airport in Kathmandu, police in Nepal said.
Former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski is the only person to climb Mount Everest and also walk in space.
He's summited Mount Everest. He's walked in space seven times.
A 52-year-old Nepalese man reached the top of Mount Everest for the 21st time on Wednesday, breaking a record he set last year for the number of ascents of the world's tallest peak, a tourism official ministry said.
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CNN's African Voices meets South African adventurer Sibusiso Vilane, the first black African to climb Mount Everest.
Sorry, Twilight fans: Edward and Bella's latest cinematic adventure didn't actually sell 40 million copies this holiday season.
This year a 13-year-old from California stunned the world when he became the youngest person to summit Mount Everest.
A search is on for a missing Nepali sherpa who has summited Mount Everest 19 times.
The bounce in your step has become a plod. Climbing stairs feels like summiting Mount Everest. Your brain's mired in fog. Whatever your personal energy crisis might be, it's time to act.
Lewis Pugh was standing in the Arctic in a Speedo about to plunge into water just shy of the freezing point when he came to grips with the challenge he was facing.
Pushing his body through epic cold-water swims, Lewis Gordon Pugh wants to draw attention to our global climate.
Looking for bright spots in auto sales so far in 2010 is like hunting for diamonds in a parking lot at Wal-Mart. You are hard pressed to find anything, and when you do, you have to examine it closely to determine its actual worth.
When one meets a woman who says she had just climbed Mt. Everest, you get curious.
Two of 10 climbers are still missing after an avalanche on Washington state's Mt. Rainier. KING's Owen Lei reports.
Recovery crews hope to resume their search Sunday for a man likely killed in an avalanche while scaling Mount Rainier in Washington.
"I'm more stoked than nervous," says Jordan Romero, who's making the trek with family members
"That's kind of the next goal," the fit actress, who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Jan., tells PEOPLE
Even from more than 21,000 feet up the world's tallest mountain, 13-year-old Jordan Romero couldn't resist the opportunity to greet his mother in a live television broadcast Monday.
A 13-year-old climbing Mount Everest calls his experience "physically and technically hard."
Thirteen-year-old Jordan Romero wants to be the youngest climber to scale Mount Everest. CNN's Isha Sesay reports.
Johnny Collinson, 17, conquered the highest mountains on seven continents
ITN's James Mates examines how climate change is transforming the face of Mount Everest.
Mindy Perlmutter was having a birthday party, but this was not just your garden variety, chocolate cake, two kinds of ice cream, balloons, and a piñata type soiree. No, this would be an affair to remember.
HLN money expert Clark Howard shows you how to protect your money on vacation.
To some it's a vacation, to others it's a holiday. No matter what you call it, it's a time to relax.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and will add its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to the leader of Eco Everest on how his latest trip up Mt. Everest raises awareness of climate change.
Dawa Steven Sherpa is leader of Eco Everest Expeditions, aiming to educate climbers about their impact on the Himalayas and highlight the affects of climate change on the region.
Identifying the world's finest airports is easy. Hong Kong International Airport, Singapore's Changi and Seoul's Incheon have topped the ranks of airport awards for the last decade.
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee examines what it takes to become Airport of the year in Hong Kong.
Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest, died in a climbing accident along with another mountaineer in the French Alps, the British Foreign Office confirmed Sunday. Both were 21.
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A team of German forensic experts has arrived in Nepal to identify the badly charred bodies of tourists who were among the dead in a plane crash near Mount Everest.
Two Dutch adventurers who survived a deadly ice avalanche that killed 11 other climbers on K2, the world's second highest mountain, were airlifted to a Pakistani hospital Monday, the team's spokesman told CNN.
At least nine climbers are feared dead and five others are missing on the world's second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, which is regarded as more challenging to climb than Mount Everest
Journalist Tomas Etzler reports from Mount Everest as the Olympic flame reaches the summit.
The Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday morning, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air of the earth's highest point.
Climbers bearing the Olympic torch will attempt to reach Mount Everest's summit Thursday after harsh weather delayed the ascent, officials said Wednesday.
Plans to take the Olympic flame to the summit of Mount Everest were delayed -- but not derailed -- by harsh weather last week, a spokesman for the Chinese climbing team said Tuesday.
The Olympic torch relay in Australia ends without drama. Andrew Stevens reports.
The biggest showcase in the build-up for the Olympics begins on Monday, March 24, with the lighting of the Olympic torch in ancient Olympia, Greece.
A U.S. citizen holding a "Free Tibet" banner has been turned back from the slopes of Mount Everest, a Nepalese army officer said.
Nepal has given its security personnel permission to shoot pro-Tibet demonstrators during China's Olympic flame climb to Mount Everest's summit early next month.
Police and Pro-Tibetan demonstrators clash outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
CNN's Hugh Riminton reports on the state funeral of Sir Edmund Hillary, hailed as "bigger and heavier than Mount Everest."
Long time friend and TVNZ Presenter Mark Sainsbury joins CNN to talk about the life and accomplishments of Edmund Hillary.
Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.
An expansive talk with Sir Edmund Hillary about his historic ascent and the life and fame that came after
Nepal will slash climbing fees for Mount Everest in the off-season to lure mountaineers to the world's tallest peak and boost tourism hit by years of a Maoist conflict, a senior minister said on Wednesday.
Shaun Horrocks, features designer for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, had heard about the highway planned on Mt. Everest and decided it may be his last chance to see landscapes that may change within a year. The Chinese government has been planning the $19.7 million project, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua, to facilitate the journey of the Olympic torch to the world's highest peak ahead of the Games. The project would turn the 108-kilometer (67-mile) rough road linking Tingri County at the foot of Everest to the Everest base camp into a blacktop highway, Xinhua has reported.
To step off the corporate treadmill in your fifties or early sixties and maintain anything close to your standard of living, you must have a seriously big retirement kitty.
Ever look at your power bill and wish you could do something about it besides running around turning off lights?
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If you think of the hierarchy of tailoring in terms of Mount Everest, down at the bottom -- somewhere around base camp -- you have your average run-of-the mill, mass-produced, off-the-peg suit.
For the first time in more than 40 years, scientists have spotted the elegant and endangered snow leopard on the southern slopes of Mount Everest.
A sharply divided Congress began debating the Bush administration's $2.6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2006 Tuesday, with Democrats sniping at administration officials on topics such as the nation's Social Security system and the deficit.
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Nepalese officials are investigating the Mount Everest record set by a Sherpa guide, after rival climbers questioned his claim to have raced from the base camp to the peak in a bare 8 hours and 10 minutes.
A Nepalese Sherpa has broken the record for the fastest ascent of Mt. Everest, scaling the world's highest mountain in 8 hours and 10 minutes.
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