Nepal bans solo climbs on Everest and all 8,000m peaks, introducing stricter rules, higher fees, and eco-measures. Here’s ...

A BRADFORD man has conquered Mount Everest base camp to raise almost £9,000 to help fund vital cancer research in Yorkshire. Sandeep Gupta completed the expedition in memory of his best friend, Sonu, ...

Reaching heights of around 620 miles (1,000km) these continent-sized “islands” of rock dwarf anything else found on our ...

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

In 2010, at the age of 22 years and seven months, Norris became the youngest British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest ...

New research reveals that two massive lunar canyons, deeper than the Grand Canyon, were formed in under 10 minutes by intense ...

A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...

Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 ... But this famous peak pales in comparison to two secret mountains, which are more than 100 times ...

Also, the climb on Mount Everest was also difficult because we ... the more I get to learn from it.” “In comparison, the climb to Australia’s highest peak Mount Kosciuszko (2228 metres ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.

Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, conquering the world's highest peak has been a goal of almost every mountaineer on the planet. But this ...