A Mount Everest veteran tells CBS News why retrieving "Green Boots," whose remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers, would be a perilous mission.

Standing on the summit of Mount Everest feels like reaching the highest possible point on Earth. The mountain rises nearly ...

The Indian government has definitively identified the mountain's most famous dead body. Now comes the dangerous, expensive reality of hacking him out of the ice.

Left stranded in freezing temperatures near Everest's "death zone," the climber said he survived for days with almost no food or water.

As a reporter from the BBC once stated, "When [Mount] Everest takes a life, it also keeps it." The number of bodies on ...

THE mystery identity of the unknown Mount Everest climber dubbed “Green Boots” has finally been revealed after three decades. The climber had become a sombre landmark frozen into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. With a frigid –30 degrees ...

In her 60s, Eva Steinwald started climbing mountains. Last year, she summited Mount Everest. She shares the mental resilience tips that got her to the top.

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 ...

Dave Montesanti ran the Boston Marathon a week before summiting Mount Everest and says the toughest climb of his life won't ...