Nearly three dozen people are facing criminal charges for their roles in a sprawling $20 million insurance scam that targeted ...

Whittaker ascended Everest in 1963, 10 years after Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the peak.

Jim Whittaker became a national celebrity after his 1963 climb and received the Hubbard Medal from President Kennedy.

Climbing season is here on the world’s highest peak, and there’s already controversy, new technology, and historic adventures ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A Nepali Sherpa has reached the top of Everest for the 27th time, breaking the world record for total number of summits of the world's tallest, and one of its deadliest, mountains.

Mount Everest looms large in the minds of thrill-seekers (and vertigo-havers). It also looms large in Everest, a 2015 ...

Jim Whittaker, the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest, died Tuesday, April 7, at his home in Port Townsend, ...

Kathmandu — Nepali climber Phunjo Lama on Thursday reached Mount Everest's summit in 14 hours and 31 minutes, smashing the record for the world's fastest ascent of the mountain by a woman. Climbers ...

Everest has always been extremely dangerous, but its most fatal years on record have generally been related to a single disastrous event. For example, an avalanche in 2014 killed at least 12 Sherpa ...

As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when ...