Mount Everest

Nepal To Hold Highest Cabinet Meeting Near Everest

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green


SYANGBOCHE, Nepal — A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ev...

Min Bahadur Sherchan, Nepalese Climber, 76, Oldest Man To Conquer Everest

Posted 11.24.2009 | World


(AP) KATMANDU, Nepal - A Nepalese man who climbed Mt. Everest at age 76 and became the oldest person to conquer the world's highest peak celebrated Mo...

Nepali Cabinet To Meet On Everest To Bring Attention To Global Warming

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to...

The Fountain of Youth- Attitude: An Interview With Werner Berger

Gail Lynne Goodwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living


Gail Lynne Goodwin

The more people I meet, I'm convinced there is no age that's young or old, but rather, people that choose to be young or old. Age is nothing more than an attitude that we get to choose.

Appa, Sherpa, Warns Mount Everest Glaciers Melting From Global Warming

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green


KATMANDU, Nepal — A Sherpa from Nepal who holds the world's record for scaling Mount Everest said Monday the planet's highest peak was littered ...

Super Sherpa Breaks Own Mount Everest Record With 19th Climb

BBC | Posted 06.21.2009 | World


A Nepalese man - who has been nicknamed Super Sherpa - has broken his own world record, climbing Mount Everest for the 19th time....

Olympic flame summits Mount Everest

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home


BEIJING — Cheering mountaineers raised the Olympic torch at the summit of the world's highest peak Thursday, producing the triumphant image that...

Sir Edmund Hillary, First Atop Mt Everest, Dies

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, Ne...