I went to Disney World with zero planning. No app. No lightning lanes. No virtual queue. Just raw dogged it and lived my life ...

When we planned the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, we ambitiously decided to try to make a few measurements on the summit to try to answer that question. We identified three ...

The enduring mystery of Mallory and Irvine, the tweed-clad heroes of Everest last seen vanishing into a cloud as mist swept ...

One of the boots used in the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest "still works" 71 years after the ...

The photograph shows seven members of the expedition trekking upwards on the north face of Mount Everest. It was taken by Noel Odell, the expedition's photographer, who was the last person to see ...

All that remained to be claimed was the "Third Pole," the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. In 1924 a British expedition was poised to make that claim. At the time of their ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on November 6, Mr. Hugh Ruttledge described the Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, of which he was leader. The party left for the 350-mile march ...

Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary crew supercharged ...

The intense physiological difficulties attending the attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, were described to members of the Royal Geographical Society by Major ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Barry Bishop returned from a historic Mount Everest expedition with his reindeer-hide boots, Vibram-soled hiking boots ...

On this day in 1886, the German-Swiss mountaineer Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was born. We detail his astonishing successes in ...