Mount Everest
Daniel Paul Paterson and his 23-year-old Sherpa are missing after ice swept them off the mountain.
Not to knock bestsellers—Jon Krakauer deserves to be famous—but some of the best adventure stories have suffered undeserved neglect. Here’s a fix for that.
2021 is already shaping up to be one of the more deadly years in this famed mountain's history.
I found something I wasn’t expecting on the roof of the world. Everest turned out to be a window on the best of humanity. And the worst.
A group of climbers brave the deadliest season on record to search for the bodies of explorers who may have beat Edmund Hillary by 30 years. An exclusive look at “Lost on Everest.”
The first people who tried to scale the world's tallest mountains included college graduates and illiterates, pacifists and combat veterans, a beekeeper, and a Wyoming cowboy.
Amid calls for new restrictions on who can ascend the world’s tallest peak, The Daily Beast learns there is a way for the sherpas and the mountaineers to co-exist.