How dexamethasone corrupted mountaineering.

Skiing in the shadow of Mount Everest.

It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the deadly realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet.

Surviving the earthquake in Nepal – on Mount Everest.

Who gets out alive when disaster strikes? The people who can afford it.

The unequal risk of climbing Mount Everest.

The rise and fall of Intrade, the betting market for world events—elections, hurricanes, Academy Awards—and the death of its CEO near the top of Everest.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.

The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.

A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.

Why people keep dying on Mount Everest.

Eco-tourism in the Himalayas.

The valley is everything you'd want and more. An icy milky river thunders over rocks and below steep wooded slopes are lush fields where people are working the land, oblivious to the Gore-Tex procession. Oblivious but not unaffected: the houses are smart, the prayer wheels freshly painted, just about everyone has a mobile phone, it seems, and is on it, and there are very few places you can't get a signal around here. This is not really the place to come if you're looking for peace and quiet.

A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.