Well, we packed too lightly for such a chilly hike. But, we nabbed a 4000-footer before high-tailing back to the warmth of a smaller peak that offered us a sunny vantage point. Today, the topic of Metta, or Lovingkindness.Come along on ...

Just imagine the surprise and shock you would get if when your telephone rings one morning and it's a call from Kathmandu, Nepal and on the end is a world famous mountaineer, that his team has found the partial remains of your long lost great u...

BREAKING NEWS: SOME OF THE REMAINS OF legendary mountaineer Sandy Irvine have been discovered on the Rongbuk Glacier of Mount Everest in Tibet by a National Geographic team that had been endeavoring to do a ski descent of the Hornbein Couloir.<...

Mount Everest—legendary, dangerous, and shrouded in myths. But how much of what you've heard is actually true? Are climbers really lining up like rush hour traffic at 29,000 feet? Is the mountain littered with bodies and trash? Let's peel back ...

Under the glow of séance candles a psychic medium sits trancelike at a table, in front of her is a blank notebook. She begins to write the words of a spirit claiming to be George Mallory  - the mountaineer who disappeared with his partner ...

They say that gong to the summit is only halfway. And nowhere was that more true than on May 10, 1996 on Mount Everest. On that day Everest became the stage for one of the most harrowing disasters in mountaineering history. Eight climbers peris...

Today we hiked two lovely mountains in the Sandwich Wilderness of the White Mountains in New Hampshire....each offered limited views at the summit. MOST IMPORTANTLY, the hike revealed some insights on personal transformation and ho...

Famed mountain climber and guide Rob Hall once said that if you’re stuck near the summit of Mount Everest you might as well be on the moon. Little did he know that his words would one day come true. This is PART 1 of a two part series on the 19...

Scott Fischer's fateful act may have been the clouded ambition that led him to say they were building a yellow brick road to the top of Mount Everest, and days later he was consumed by the very mountain that had propelled him into the world spo...

Years ago Mount Everest was considered a mountaineer’s mountain, where a climber need only worry most about avalanches, hidden crevasses and the potential to succumb to Altitude Mountain Sickness.But now, something far more hazardous an...

All that glitters is not gold: How Did This Climber Get Away with So Much for So Long?*In the world of mountaineering and climbing, where the peaks are high and the challenges even higher, there's an unspoken reverence for those who def...

The 2024 Everest climbing season may go down in history for its extraordinary mix of achievements, controversies, and tragedies.  From record-breaking summits and political tensions, lives lost, ignored rules, near misses and disturbing al...

May 10, 1996: near the summit of Mount Everest a storm of unimaginable ferocity strikes, claiming the lives of eight climbers and leaving others stranded in a fight for survival. This is the story of one of the most controversial and tragic day...

The cult-like mystique of Bus 142 and the story of Chris McCandless is a magnet for millions around the world. In the heart of the mysterious Alaskan wilderness, where nature's beauty and brutality coexist, there once stood a relic, an accident...

He’s 19 years old. His name is Ryan Mitchell. He had a dream that started a year and a half ago. He saved some money that he made from his 2 million subscriber YouTube channel. He went to Mount Everest. And, now he has a summit of Everest under...

Here is Part II of my exceptional conversation with Wade Davis about such things as:• Grateful Dead & the internet• Mao Tse-tung• Martin Luther King, Jr.• Biologically race is total fiction & racism the cruelest conceit&...

The 100th Anniversary of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine on Mount Everest on 8 June 1924 with Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence: The Great War Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. If you've ever put someone on a pedes...

Hey friends, thanks for stopping by. I want to take a few minutes to talk about the future of Everest Mystery, where we're going and what the future holds for all of us. Thanks for being a part of this wonderful community. Here is ...

This is PART TWO of a two part series on Everest's worst year. People who want to climb Mount Everest are motivated, goal oriented people with mental and physical toughness. In recent years more and more of these people have come t...

If you ever wanted to climb Mount Everest you will want to watch this video first.I'm going to give you TEN good reasons why not to climb Mount Everest (actually 18). In PART I of this 2-part series we meet half of the 18 people who los...

Mount Everest is like a ticking time b*mb or a kettle that's about to boil. With about 50 successful summits and the season half over,  hundreds of climbers are waiting for weather to turn for the better in Base Camp. Climbers on summit da...

These days many people are often very cynical about Mount Everest. When they hear about it or think about it they think Mount Everest is a place with a pile of abandoned bodes, often with images of garbage and human waste and long lines of clim...

Thom Pollard dedicated two whole years of your life to a quest on Mount Everest. A quest to solve the mystery of the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine in 1924. Imagine that you've poured your heart and soul into a pursuit. And, j...

*The mountaineering world was turned on its head on May 1, 1999 when the remains of George Mallory was discovered by Conrad Anker at about 26,750 feet or 8153 meters on the vast north face of Everest. When the news got out, it set the mountaine...

Near the summit of Mount Everest in the death zone on the ridge of the north face there is a shallow cave, known infamously to all who climb there as the location where in 1996 an Indian man named Tsewang Paljor lay down to rest and never got u...