How Sherpas make it to the top of Mount Everest time and again, and whether or not they really like it.

BY BILLIE MANDELBAUMEdmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mt. Everest when they ascended the mountain on May 29, 1953. A Nepali folk song, later writte

National Geographic revisits the 1953 British summit to Everest when the first people stood atop the world's highest mountain.

The first Nepali woman to summit the world’s tallest mountain

Members of this Nepalese community are renowned for their climbing skills and remarkable endurance at high altitudes. They are paid well by local standards, but it's a job fraught with risk.

For more than a century, Western climbers have hired Nepal’s Sherpas to do the most dangerous work on Mount Everest. It’s a lucrative way of life in a poor region, but no service industry in the

When the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, the world watched as parts of Kathmandu were reduced to rubble. But just fifty miles north, in a valley called Langtang, the shaking unleashed

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Just when Nepal's climbing industry was recovering from last year's deadly avalanche on Mount Everest, another avalanche triggered by last month's earthquake killed 19 people,...