All of the tallest mountains in the world are located in Asia, either in the Himalayas or the Karakorum ranges. Of the 10 ...

Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean.

Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.

Built onto a cliffside in an area dominated by 200-metre high sandstone rockfaces sits the world's tallest outdoor elevator, ...

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

Standing at an awe-inspiring 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) above sea level, Mount Everest is recognized as the world's highest mountain. This measurement is based on the global mean sea level ...

Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak.

Alan Arnette, an Everest summiteer and a well-respected chronicler of the mountain, suggests that from his research the ...

Tragedy on Grossglockner Tragedy unfolded in Austria on the mountain Grossglockner last weekend. A 33-year old woman froze to ...