Google Street View has gone to many places before - including quite possibly the street where you grew up and the far reaches of the Grand Canyon. And now, they've scaled Mount Everest.

An avalanche hit climbers on a high Himalayan peak in Nepal yesterday, leaving at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said.

A 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest ever person to climb Mount Everest.

A record-breaking Nepalese Sherpa flew to Mount Everest today to prepare to scale the world’s highest mountain once again and scatter the ashes of its most celebrated climber, Edmund Hillary.

A veteran Sherpa guide says he is planning to climb Mount Everest for a record 20th time while cleaning up tons of rubbish, campaigning for Nepal's tourism industry and taking up the ashes of Edmund Hillary.