In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top of Everest. Now, 50 years later, three sons of Everest's most celebrated climbers return to the mountain to challenge it again. Join their journey as they brave the elements and face death to climb 29,000 feet of wind-blasted rock and ice. And, relive the dramatic history of Everest from great triumphs to deadly tragedies, enduring rivalries and the unsung role of the Sherpa people—as National Geographic exposes the untold stories that lurk in the mountain's epic shadow and takes you on the ultimate Everest experience.

Join us as we explore life on the highest mountain plateau on Earth. This beautiful and other worldl...

In 1950, a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog went to central Nepal to conquer the highest peak...

In 1974, a Basque expedition had to withdraw 300 meters from the summit of Everest due to the monsoo...

Dubbed ‘The Mountain God’, the Citadel is a stunning 3000m peak in one of the remaining untouched co...

Eyewitness accounts, incredible home-video and the latest scientific revelations tell the gripping t...

Two Nepali men climb Mt. Everest, launch a paraglider from the summit, fly over the top and set a ne...

Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountai...

Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineeri...

From his rock climbing days in the UK through to visionary ascents on the high peaks of the Himalaya...

Guido Magnone's incredible adventure begins strangely on the banks of the Ourcq canal among a group ...

In 1994, New Zealand mountaineer, Mark Whetu, summitted Mt Everest with climbing partner and friend ...

Alex Honnold is the most accomplished free climber in the world. Angola is a southwest African count...

The dramatic stories of Fritz Wiessner’s 1939 K2 expedition and Charlie Houston’s return in 1953. K...

Swedish adventurer Robin Trygg’s journey to climb Mount Everest, that was covered by media during in...

Thanks to his perseverance, the Italian Simone Moro has written pages in the history of mountaineeri...
Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000 foot Hima...

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition in...