Mountaineers who have trained and had their sights set on climbing to the summit of Mount Everest this month will have to postpone their expedition.

At least 95 people are reportedly dead and 130 injured after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Western China near Mount Everest on Tuesday, Jan. 7

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Tibet, reportedly killing at least 95 on the Chinese side of the border and damaging more than 1,000 homes.

At least 130 people have been injured in the earthquake-hit area in Tibet on the Chinese side of the border, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing the vice mayor of Shigatse city.

The number of dead from the severe earthquake in the region around Mount Everest rose to 95 on Tuesday, China's state news agency Xinhua reported as more bodies were recovered. A further 130 people were injured by the quake in the Tibet autonomous region of China,

At least 126 people have been killed and thousands of houses damaged in the quake, with tremors felt in neighbouring Nepal's capital, Kathmandu and parts of India.

Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas have ... in water when cargo is unloaded,” said geoscientist Dai Jingen of China University of Geosciences in Beijing. Dai is a leader of the study ...

Mount Everest is indeed the world's highest mountain, with its peak standing at 8,849m (that's 8.8km) above the ocean. However, if you consider mountains that begin below sea level, Everest is not the tallest mountain, and is in fact nearly 2,000m behind the real winner.

A deadly earthquake struck near the city of Shigatse in Tibet region and was felt in neighboring Nepal and India. The epicenter was in a remote high-altitude region about 50 miles northeast of Mount Everest,

Videos posted by China's Ministry of Emergency Management ... recorded in the three hours after the earthquake, and the Mount Everest scenic area on the Chinese side was closed, according to ...

A strong earthquake shook a high-altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal on Tuesday, damaging hundreds of houses, littering streets with rubble and killing at least 126 people in Tibet. Many others were trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the remote region.