“This was the original price,” Serap Jangbu Sherpa assured them as he pulled down a waterproof jacket from the rafters, “but now you get 35 percent discount.”

This weekend, Min Bahadur Sherchan was preparing to climb Mt. Everest when he died of a suspected heart attack at base camp. The Nepalese climber was 85 years old, and he was preparing to summit Everest again and reclaim his record as the oldest person to climb the world’s tallest mountain. He is the second person…

In June, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod lived out a lifelong dream and summited Mt. Everest. They became the first Indian couple to climb the mountain together, and claimed that they’d been putting off having a child until they managed to climb the world’s tallest mountain. It’s a heartwarming story. Problem is, they…

See the steam rising off Nepali mountain runner Mira Rai? Sweet effect, right?

The real problem in track and field might not be the endemic corruption, but defeatism, the feeling that everybody’s in on it—administrators, coaches, athletes, watchdogs. The feeling that the problem is just too big to solve. There’s a nagging sense that telling the Russian federation it’s not okay to dope, and…