Indian authorities are hoping to launch an operation to recover the frozen body of a climber who died on Mount Everest nearly 30 years ago in one of the deadliest disasters ever seen on the world's ...

In 1996, a blizzard in Everest’s notorious ‘death zone’ killed ‘Green Boots’. Now, a fresh expedition plans to retrieve his body, and establish his identity Thirty years after he perished in a small ...

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 ice after dying ...

Brisbane man Oliver Foran set out to break the record for the fastest human-powered ascent of Everest from sea-level.(Supplied) Brisbane mountaineer Oliver Foran has completed his journey from sea ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. An hour above high camp on the Southeast Ridge of Everest, Panuru Sherpa and I passed the first body. The dead climber was on ...

The idea of cooling a solid-state optical material by simply shining a laser beam onto it may seem counterintuitive, but this is rapidly becoming a promising technology for future cryocoolers. Here, ...

Base camp occupies a site on the gravel plain below the Rongbuk Glacier at approximately 17,000 feet. Tents are set up on the sandy gravel valley, which carves out a north-south swath in the high ...