The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot meal or two.

When the main climbing season begins next month on Mount Everest, expedition companies ... fix them over crevasses and lay rope to climb up the ice wall. Once the ladders and ropes are set along ...

Four schoolboys have undertaken a challenging mission to raise funds for an air ambulance service. Hambo Kane, Ed Hyland, Freddie Storey and Louis Plunkett, aged 10 to 11, sparked surprise when they ...

“Everest” is based on the true events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster ... you can see these tiny figures trudging up an endless wall of ice, and it really hammers in just how massive ...

Dan Meyer arrives at the KJZZ studios with a long, narrow black bag. As we’re getting settled in the studio, he takes a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous ...

WITH minimum effort but quite a lot of noise, the Thomas brothers appear to be taking over British television. It started, ...

The allure of this huge system is similar to that which big mountains hold for climbers—with one difference: We know that Mount Everest is Earth ... years later. This wall, 1,200 feet high ...

As long-haul flights to internationally renowned challenges such as the Inca trail, Kilimanjaro and the Everest base camp ... north of the recently closed Mount Melleray Abbey and three stages ...