KATHMANDU (Reuters) - An Indian climber and another from the Philippines became the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the current March-May climbing season of the world's highest peak, ...

The Hillary Step, the famous rock barrier located shortly below the summit of Everest, seems to have collapsed, probably due to the terrible earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015. British mountaineer ...

The condition of the rock face has been the source of intense speculation among the climbing community since six-time Everest summiteer Tim Mosedale declared it had crumbled. "The Hillary Step is no ...

Not long after daybreak on May 24, Mark Luscher found himself at the foot of the Hillary Step. Back home in the Oregon Cascades, it would have been a piece of cake. Just a little 60-foot rock climb, ...