(CNN) — A permit to climb the world’s tallest mountain costs an eye-popping $15,000 — and that’s before you add in the price of airfare, gear and a guide. But Nepal, which has long sought to diversify ...

Climbers trekking through a snowy slope heading to Mount Everest in the distance - Vixit/Shutterstock Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth. It stands at an incredible 29,032 feet and grows ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Kristin Harila hopes her mountaineering magic becomes a foothold for other women looking to reach their zenith – even if that destination isn’t 29,000 feet skyward. Harila, 37, reached the summit of ...

Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth. It stands at an incredible 29,032 feet and grows about 0.16 inches a year, just one of the intriguing facts about the world's tallest mountain. Summiting ...