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06/29/11 Youngest person to climb Mount Everest tackles 812-foot Jerimoth Hill
06/27/11 Jordan Romero has done something no other 13-year-old has ever done. In May, 2010, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the youngest to ever do so. Along with his father, Paul, and...
06/18/11 PASADENA - Gary J. Nelson was walking along the designated path last month when he decided to walk around the person in front of him. He took just one step off the path and plummeted several hundred feet into one of the treacherous crevasses that take lives and limbs on Mount Everest.
05/30/11 Colorado businessman Marshall Ulrich had checked a whole lot of things off his ultra bucket list. Summit the seven highest peaks in the world, including Mount Everest. Done.
05/27/11 Today is Sunday, May 29, the 149th day of 2011. There are 216 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to re
05/27/11 He has just conquered Mount Everest - but Richard Parks' 737 Challenge has been threatened by frostbite.
05/27/11 When people in the West think of Nepal, which isn't often, they reflect on Mount Everest and the amazing Himalayan mountains, along with opportunities for mountain-climbing. Some see Nepal as a center for Eastern spirituality or as a haven for Tibetan refugees, or think of the isolated Nepal of the
05/27/11 Mike Gibbons was more than two-thirds of the way up - 22,000 feet up - to Mount Everest's summit when, suddenly, as he describes it, "Boom."Gibbons, 55, found himself dangling by a safety rope attached around his waist after falling 15 feet into a 60-foot crevasse.The fall...
05/26/11 Former Wales international Richard Parks has reached the summit of Mount Everest in the latest stage of his epic quest to climb the seven highest mountains and reach the north and south poles in the space of seven months
05/24/11 A Rhode Island physician has successfully scaled Mount Everest. The Providence Journal reports Tuesday that Dr. Louis J. Mariorenzi, of Jamestown, made it to the summit of the world's tallest mountain last Thursday.
05/21/11 Bandung (The Jakarta Post/ANN) - Indonesia's National Awakening Day, which fell on Friday, was marked by a four-person team of the country's mountaineers who hoisted the national flag on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal.
05/18/11 Kids face a mountain of challenges in their lives, and 12 who have written about overcoming violence will meet a one-armed man tonight who climbed Mount Everest
05/13/11 Two Iowa climbers have reached the peak of Mount Everest, according to reports from Nepal.
05/10/11 17:38 PM Ex minister from Nepal dies in Everest record bid : A former Nepalese foreign minister has died while trying to become the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest.
05/06/11 Mike Gibbons was more than two-thirds of the way up - 22,000 feet - Mount Everest's summit when he fell 15 feet into a crevasse, left dangling by his rope.After suffering what he thought was a broken left arm, Gibbons flew home to Yorba Linda.A day after returning, Gibbons, 55, was on a...
05/01/11 VENTURA - Brain cancer survivor Justin Anderson returned April 25 from his 20-day journey to Mount Everest jet-lagged and 15 pounds lighter, but feeling great.
04/30/11 TYLER KULA The Observer The challenge of climbing to Mount Everest's base camp is tempered by by the mountain's incredible beauty, says one of 42 climbers who recently attempted the trek.[...]
04/28/11 Nawang Gombu Sherpa was the youngest member of the 1953 expedition which made the first ascent of Mount Everest. He later reached the summit himself and subsequently became the first person to climb Everest twice. His entr?e to the comparatively lucrative world of high altitude mountaineering was made possible by his uncle, Tenzing Norgay, who reached the summit in 1953 with Edmund Hillary.
04/27/11 Steve Nelson will be at The Hub in Crossville at 7 p.m. this Thursday, April 28, and will offer a photo presentation of his recent trek to Mount Everest.
04/24/11 If you have an inkling for an adventure, such as seeing Mount Everest in person, go for it. Photo by: Ron Erskine, Special to the Free Lance As a young man, I immersed myself in stories of the 1963 American Everest Expedition. At the time, the mountain had only been climbed three times, and an expedition required a massive logistical effort that resembled a lengthy military campaign. There was ...
04/22/11 DES MOINES - Fourteen cancer survivors who climbed to the Nepal base camp of Mount Everest are set to return to Des Moines on Monday, a group spokesman said. | 
