Mount everest News

Kathmandu - A Saudi Arabian woman, Raha Muharrak, 25, was among 64 people who reached the summit of Mount Everest Saturday, having climbed from Nepal's side of the mountain. Muharraq is the first woman from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reach the summit.

Researchers announced at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico, May 14, that snow and ice on Mount Everest and the neighboring area was melting at an increasing rate. According to the study, global warming is affecting the Everest environment

Eli Reimer, 15, with Down Syndrome reached the Nepal base camp of Mt. Everest earlier this month. Eli of Bend, Oregon, may be the first US teen with Down syndrome to climb to one of the base camps on the world’s highest mountain.

A mountaineer and film-maker has created the most detailed image of Mount Everest ever. Working with Microsoft and the Royal Geographic Society, David Breashears has created a 3.8-billion-pixel photographic reproduction of the world's tallest mountain.

Nine mountain climbers are believed to have died and six more climbers are missing in Nepal after an avalanche occurred on a Himalayan peak. The avalanche struck a base camp near the summit.

A 73-year-old Japanese woman beat her own world record for a second time when she reached the peak of the world's highest mountain on Saturday morning making her the world's oldest woman to conquer Mt. Everest.

A Japanese woman recently broke the world record for being the world's oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. This is not her first record-breaker, she had set the record on a previous climb in 2002.

At least 19 passengers and crew of a small tourist plane were reported killed as the aircraft they were boarding crashes while on sight seeing tour in Nepal

Kathmandu - For decades, the Nepalese government has continued to state that Mount Everest stands at 29,028 feet (8,448 meters), but Chinese officials and Western climbers say they have a slightly different measurement.

Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, will be cleaned up, thanks to the efforts of twenty Nepali climbers involved with Extreme Everest Expedition 2010. The team is setting off this week to remove decades-old garbage from the mountain.