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Watching the Sun Rise on the Summit of Mt. Everest (PHOTO)

Cason Crane | Posted 06.10.2013 | Gay Voices
Cason Crane

I had summited Everest in honor of other LGBTQ youth who face discrimination and harassment, and also to send a message: You can do it. Find your Everest. Find it and climb it and stand on top and exult in the sun rising over the vast horizon.

Bally Was Here: The Luxury Brands' Presence At The First Everest Climb

Zandile Blay | Posted 05.31.2013 | Style
Zandile Blay

Of all the things mountaineer Tenzing Norgay must have been grateful for as he topped Mount Everest, it may very well have been luxury shoes.

Everest: The World's Tallest Pile Of Garbage

time.com | Posted 05.29.2013 | Green

As more and more people try to test themselves against Everest--often paying over $100,000 for a "guided climb"--this desolate mountain is becoming as...

Octogenarian Becomes Oldest Person To Scale Everest

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 05.23.2013 | World

KATMANDU, Nepal — An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on...

Indian Woman Is First Female Amputee To Conquer Everest

Agence France Presse | | Posted 05.22.2013 | World

An Indian woman who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest, expediti...

First Saudi Woman Ever Climbs Mount Everest

AP | Posted 05.18.2013 | World

KATMANDU, Nepal — Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's...

80-Year-Old Man Begins Journey To Become Eldest On Everest

The Huffington Post | Carlo Davis | Posted 05.17.2013 | World

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has set out to reclaim his title as the oldest man ever to successfully summit Mount Everest. According to the...

Mount Everest Melting?

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 05.16.2013 | Green

For years, scientists have worried about the impact of climate change in the invaluable Himalayan region. Recent research seems to confirm worries tha...

Fighting Climbers On Mt. Everest Reach Truce

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 05.01.2013 | World

KATMANDU, Nepal -- A truce has been reached between three foreign climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides who were involved in a fistfight on Mount Everes...

Witness Describes 'Terrifying' Brawl On Mt. Everest

Agence France Presse | Kyle Knight | Posted 04.29.2013 | World

A mountaineer on Everest described the "terrifying" scene of two famous European climbers fighting with Nepalese guides in a high-altitude brawl that ...

Ain't No Mountain High Enough... For Pakistani Women

Havovi Cooper | Posted 06.09.2013 | World
Havovi Cooper

Much of the news that comes out of Pakistan is about dictators, drones and destruction, but 31-year-old Shehrbano Saiyid is one of the few Pakistanis who is trying to change the narrative of this beleaguered nation.

Last Surviving Member Of Team That First Conquered Mount Everest Dies

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 03.22.2013 | Sports

LONDON -- George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died at age 89. Mary Lowe...

Breaking The World's Highest Glass Ceiling

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 05.04.2013 | World

KATMANDU, Nepal — It's the world's highest glass ceiling. Of the 3,755 climbers who have scaled Mount Everest, more than half are Nepalese but o...

Female Sherpa's Amazing Everest Feat

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 02.26.2013 | Travel

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did s...

INTERACTIVE PHOTO: Everest Climate Change In 2 BILLION Pixels

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 12.19.2012 | Green

Picture this: Mount Everest, captured in astounding interactive digital detail. We're not talking megapixels, we're talking gigapixels -- as in two to...

Epic Photos of the Everest Base Camp Trek

HUMANITY.TV | Posted 02.15.2013 | Travel
HUMANITY.TV

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Erik Weihenmayer: Redefining Limits

SnagFilms | Posted 02.11.2013 | Sports
SnagFilms

Erik Weihenmayer is a man whose ambition, drive, and performance reject any notion of disability. He is one of the world's most adventurous people, as he is a blind skier, runner, biker, skydiver and climber.

World's Highest National Park Opens

Posted 10.29.2012 | Travel

With the opening of Qomolangma National Park Friday, Tibet is now home to the world's highest national park, reports Xinhua. The park is named for ...

Explorers Club Journeys to New Depths With World Record Diver

Megan Snedden | Posted 12.15.2012 | New York
Megan Snedden

In 1960, Don Walsh -- accompanied by fellow explorer Jacques Piccard -- became the first person to venture to the deepest part of the ocean, approximately 35,798 feet into the Mariana Trench located in the Western Pacific Ocean.

Seaside Adventures In Stunning Wales

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 09.20.2012 | Travel
Margie Goldsmith

After being fitted for wetsuits, personal flotation devices and helmets, we walk down a dirt path to the ocean. "Everyone ready?" the guide asks. "Just remember to stay on the barnacles. The rocks are slippery but the barnacles are your friends." I tighten the shoelaces on my sneakers and follow the others down the slippery rocks.

Lesson To Freshmen: ‘Fear Is OK'

TheDAOnline.com | Bryan Bumgardner | Posted 08.22.2012 | Healthy Living

Even though she’s climbed mountains on every continent, world famous climber Alison Levine can now call herself a Mountaineer. Levine came to West V...

Exploring "The World and All That's in It"

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 09.08.2012 | DC
Zoe P. Strassfield

I won't claim I had no interest in geography before I started reading National Geographic, that's simply not true. But I wasn't aware of all of the things that "geography" could encompass.

Why Anti-Aging Researchers Are Looking To Everest, Space

Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 06.16.2012 | Fifty

What do astronauts and mountain climbers have to do with your wrinkles or heart disease? A lot, thanks to recent studies that have researchers looking...

Chhiring Dorje Describes Heroic Rescue for the First Time

Peter Zuckerman | Posted 08.13.2012 | Books
Peter Zuckerman

Chhiring Dorje, a 12-time Everest summiter who is one of the world's best Sherpa mountaineers, once pulled off one of the most difficult and dramatic rescues in the history of mountaineering.

Man Climbs World's 14 Tallest Mountains

AP | Posted 08.11.2012 | World

KATMANDU, Nepal — A Japanese mountaineer who was nearly killed by an avalanche in 2007 finished a climb in Nepal last month that made him his co...