Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lhakpa Sherpa is a climber who holds the female record for the most Mount Everest summits. A new Netflix documentary reveals how ...

Rescuers searched on foot and by air in a helicopter but were not expected to be found, according to a local report Three Sherpa climbers disappeared into a deep crevasse on Mt. Everest Wednesday. The ...

On 17 May, Nepali mountain guides Kami Rita Sherpa and Lhakpa Sherpa achieved the extraordinary, reaching the summit of Everest (aka Sagarmāthā or Chomolungma), the world's highest mountain, soaring ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Kanchha Sherpa, last survivor of the historic 1953 Mount Everest expedition, died Thursday at 92 in Kathmandu, ...

The second-highest mountain on Earth is so remote, and so hard to climb, that it has never had a commonly accepted name. Even today, it is best known by the surveyor’s mark assigned to it in the ...

You’ve done this more than a dozen times. The tallest mountain in the world is your workplace, and you know it like the palm of your hand. Unfortunately, your companions aren’t as skilled as you are.

Lhakpa Sherpa was smiling. But inside, she was a bundle of nerves. On July 30, the single mom of three was hours away from seeing the most triumphant and painful moments of her life become ...