“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” should be the creed of every burgeoning inventor who wants to reinvent the wheel or the toilet flusher button. After all, isn’t modern plumbing and ...

The world’s tallest mountain is getting taller. Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma, has grown about 15 to 50 meters (50 to 164 feet) higher over the past 89,000 years than expected ...

By Robin George Andrews Mount Everest is many things. It’s called Chomolungma in Tibetan, and Sagarmatha in Nepali. It’s an iconic part of Earth’s topography, a potentially lethal climbing ...

Here’s how it works. A "weird" river in the Himalayas may have pushed the peak of Mount Everest up by 164 feet (50 meters), scientists say. According to a new study, a river roughly 46 miles (75 ...

Earth’s tallest mountain is getting even taller. An eroding river gorge has thrusted Mount Everest higher, as it pulls rock and sediment away from the area. Over the past 89,000 years it is ...

Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world with an altitude of 8.848m, is seen in this aerial view next to 6.812m-high Mount Ama Dablam (bottom right) in 2007. (Photo: Reuters/Desmond Boylan) 01 ...

Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it. Mount Everest is about 15 to ...

Mount Everest has grown up to 164ft taller because of the combined forces of erosion and upward pressure from beneath Earth’s crust, researchers have said. Experts say that a nearby river is ...

Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an inexorable uplift that ...