After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an achievement that has captivated skiers and alpinists for decades. Everest's North ...

American Jim Morrison trains in the shadow of Everest’s north face in 2024. His Wednesday descent of the mountain’s Hornbein Couloir is one of the most audacious feats ever performed on skis. Jimmy ...

Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local time on Wednesday. An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

In the dark of night on Monday, September 22, American ultrarunner Tyler Andrews was making his way through the Khumbu Icefall, the massive glacier at the base of Mount Everest, when disaster struck.

A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...

Maybe you saw a dramatic Tweet or two, or your uncle Ron sent you one of the many videos circulating on Facebook. I’m willing to bet that, at some point in the last few days, you learned that several ...

Beijing — About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend blizzard in a valley on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday. The ...

HERRIMAN — Jason Wardle turned 50 in February, said he and some of his cousins — who all live in Utah and are the same age — wanted to make the most of the milestone. "We all turned 50 this year and ...

Tibetan firefighters are seen rescuing stranded trekkers from Everest in this screengrab taken from a video released on Monday. (Tibet Firefighting Department via Reuters) Rescue efforts continue for ...

A South Korean climber has died in Nepal after getting caught in a powerful storm while attempting to summit a Himalayan peak just south of Mount Everest. Meanwhile, hundreds of hikers have begun ...

The world's tallest mountain has been hit by an unexpected storm. Nearly 1,000 hikers were stranded on Mount Everest when a massive blizzard ravaged the range's eastern slope in Tibet over the weekend ...

Hundreds of hikers trapped on Mount Everest were rescued over the weekend, while scores more are still unaccounted for as unseasonably heavy snow and thunder pound the eastern face of the peak, ...