Indian climber Ravi Thakar was found dead inside his tent on Mount Everest at 7,900m Camp Four in Nepal last Friday morning. Severe altitude sickness is being blamed for his death.

The search for a missing Irish man on Mount Everest will resume in the next three days.

Ranulph Fiennes has survived many tight spots as the world’s greatest living explorer, but one of the first risks he took landed him

Here's your morning news bulletin...

If the power of the mind helped John Burke to top Mt Everest, can students use it to reach peak potential? writes Trish Flanagan.

Sólfar Studios and RVX have released an exciting new virtual reality experience for the Oculus Rift sure to strike a chord with hill walkers and hiking enthusiasts everywhere; Everest VR.

Ian Toothill wants to prove anything is possible regardless of your situation.

POPULATED with heroism, survival and cannibalism, this true maritime yarn will surely appeal to anyone with a yen to expand their seafaring insights. 

Tens of thousands of people were spending the night in the open after a powerful earthquake devastated Nepal, killing more than 1,180 people.

Eighty-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest.

GREG BUTLER is a happy and proud man. Last year, he achieved one of his life-time’s ambitions, to reach the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain.

Intrade, the Dublin-headquartered online service that lets people bet with one another on events such as elections and the weather, has ceased trading activity, saying it is investigating possible financial irregularities.

The Sleeping Beauty was always Joan Denise Moriarty’s favourite show. As Cork City Ballet prepare to produce it in November, Jo Kerrigan talks to Alan Foley about its particular magic

Guinness World Records has launched the latest edition of its best-selling book documenting global achievement, including new entries for the shortest bull, the oldest gymnast, and the lowest ever car.

BEFORE there was a Twitter, camera, or even a telegraph, the results of the Olympics were transmitted via carrier pigeon.

Shore crews probably got wetter in one afternoon than sailors did in the entire 550-mile final sprint from Lorient in France to Galway.

An ambitious target of €100,000 is being set for supporters of an annual cancer research fundraiser.

AN Irish ultra runner has revealed a bottle of beer helped him become the only man on the planet to run seven marathons on seven continents in less than five days.

The youngest Irish man to climb Mt Everest and a World Transplant Athletics champion have addressed meeting of 400 people in Limerick to share ideas on how to best shape the future of the city.

ANYONE who has ever held a hurley in his hand has had the dream, or some variant of the dream.

THE widow of a Laois man who died near the summit of Mt Everest said yesterday her husband had her “unwavering support” in his decision to climb the world’s highest mountain.

Thousands of New Zealanders filed solemnly past the casket of Mount Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary today as they paid final respects ahead of his state funeral tomorrow.

Northern Ireland mountaineer Terence “Banjo” Bannon has said he will never attempt to climb one of the world’s most lethal peaks again after witnessing the death of four Russian climbers from his team.

Forty-nine years after his grandfather became one of the first two men to climb Mount Everest, Tashi Wangchuk Tenzing today reached the top of the world’s highest peak.