Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I never expected to find myself on Mount Everest. For seven years before that climb, I was the primary caregiver for my mother as ...

Dawa Sherpa was airlifted to Kathmandu, where doctors treated him for frostbite, severe dehydration and a fractured thigh bone.

It was the kind of quiet built from money and insulation. Thick walls. Soft lighting. Polished surfaces. A quiet meant to keep danger outside. In the mirror at a five star hotel, I saw a woman who ...

A Nepali mountaineer has described spending three days trapped inside a deep a crevasse on Mount Everest. Dawa Sherpa survived on biscuits, chocolates and chunks of ice, while back home his family had ...

Helicopters airlifted injured climbers off Mount Everest Sunday after an avalanche killed at least 18 people, an AFP team at the scene reported, even as a powerful aftershock hit the world’s highest ...

This is the moment an avalanche thundered down Mount Everest before swallowing a camp in wave of snow. The fast-moving avalanche struck a base camp on the south slope of the world’s highest mountain ...

Two foreign mountaineers have returned to Everest after a deadly avalanche effectively ended the climbing season, flying by helicopter partway up the peak before starting their ascents, an official ...

Discovery Channel announced today that it will broadcast a 90-minute documentary, titled EVEREST AVALANCHE TRAGEDY, on Sunday, May 4, at 9 PM ET/PT that will air around the world in 224 countries. It ...

I never expected to find myself on Mount Everest. For seven years before that climb, I was the primary caregiver for my mother as ALS slowly dismantled her body. I learned how to lift her without ...

I clawed upward. Seconds feel like hours inside snow. I punched the axe toward light and broke through. I dug myself out of what could have been my grave, coughing, disoriented, my ribs aching from ...