Mount Everest is named after a surveyor George Everest and surprisingly, Everest wasn't happy with that idea. A lot of people ...

Yesterday, 13-year-old Jordon Romero of Big Bear Lake set off to become the youngest person to summit Mt. Everest. Last week, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland from Thousand Oaks rounded Cape Horn. She ...

Len Forkas founded the non-profit Hopecam after witnessing his own son's loneliness while undergoing treatment for leukemia. He's now helping other children. Climbing Mount Everest is no small feat.

Since the first conquest of Mount Everest in 1953, the peak has been climbed thousands of times, though hundreds have lost their lives attempting the trek. The famous mountain sits on the border of ...

BEIJING — An eighth-grader from California who became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mt. Everest said today he hopes his achievement will encourage young people worldwide to dream big. "I'm ...

(Reuters) - The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, an emotional moment for China and the crowning of the Beijing Olympics torch relay. Here are five facts about Everest, the ...

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest. The remains of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were ...

Aside from this though, this mountain located in the Himalayas, has some other facts that are quite interesting. Here are five interesting facts about Mount Everest; 1) George Everest didn't want it ...