A century ago, a British expedition set out to find a route to the world’s highest ... Wheeler was able to create the first map of Everest and one that is still in use today.

Led by Gerard Devouassoux, the First French Everest Expedition wanted to climb the Lho La - West Ridge route without supplemental oxygen. They established Base Camp on Aug. 16, 1974, at the usual ...

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and is an unavoidable part of the traditional southeast route up Everest. Camp III sits about halfway up this ascending wall of ...

He was a flawed, restless man seconded by the first Everest Expedition to map the unmappable, and a consummate mountain climber who introduced the Canadian Photo-Survey Topographical Mapping ...