Four British climbers pose on the summit of Mount Everest less than a week after leaving London, in one of the fastest ascents on record of the world's highest peak, in Nepal (Sandro Gromen via AP)

Two people died while climbing Mount Everest as hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale the world's highest peak, expedition organizers said.

A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, says he is already planning his next attempt.

In his latest dispatch, our Everest reporter explains the crucial work done by rope-fixing teams. Plus, one climber’s global triathlon ends at Everest.

People who live in the Nepalese mountains have been guiding foreign climbers up the world's tallest mountain since the 1920s. We take a closer look at their vital role in these high-risk expeditions

TWO Filipina mountaineers who made the first and only documented all-female traverse of Mt. Everest have reunited with other members of the Philippine Mount Everest Expedition team and their supporters during the launch of the book reliving their 2007 conquest of the world’s highest peak.

UNDP Youth Advocate and mountaineer Ikramul Hasan Shakil successfully scaled Mount Everest, after walking around 1,400 kilometres from the shores of the Bay of Bengal in Cox's Bazar of Bangladesh in just 84 days,