You can still climb Mount Everest. Here’s how to do it responsibly.
New rules are changing the Everest Base Camp hiking experience, aiming to protect the Himalayas’ Sherpa communities and help trekkers make a more positive impact.
California climbers train for Mount Everest from the comfort of their own beds
A new device is allowing climbers to save time on their trip to Everest by training for the higher elevation from home.
Virus Ends Wyoming Mountaineer's Second Attempt To Climb Mount Everest
Casper mountaineer Dr. Joe McGinley’s second attempt to summit Mount Everest in a year has been stopped by a cold virus that is affecting his heart. Everest remains his last of climbing tallest peaks on all seven continents.
Last letters of pioneering climber who died on Everest reveal dark side of mountaineering
Newly digitized letters shed light on mountaineer George Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Mount Everest, leading up to the last days before he disappeared.
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Famed explorer wrote a poignant letter to his wife before dying on Mount Everest
He told her “this has been a bad time altogether" and ended the letter by saying he estimated the odds of success as “50 to 1 against us.”
Read Everest-scaling mountaineer George Mallory’s last letters, digitized for the first time
George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s — until the mountain claimed his life. Nearly a century later,
One of Mt. Everest's deadliest passages is growing even more treacherous
One of Mount Everest's deadliest passages, the Khumbu Icefall, delayed this year's climbing season by nearly 2 weeks and will ...
Dead bodies are left behind on Mount Everest, so why are hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring?
The world’s highest mountain continues to draw climbers willing to risk their lives as they clamber past frozen corpses on ...
Fundraisers complete 'Everest' bike challenge in Dales
James Badger, from Harrogate, took on his latest challenge in memory of his wife, Philippa, who died in 2022, two days after ...
The Winds of Everest Punish the Summit
The Jetstream's annual migration from the top of the Himalayas is late, forcing climbers to play the waiting-game before ...
5-year-old becomes youngest Singaporean to conquer Everest base camp through ‘hard work and faith’
Abyan Imtiaz Irkiz, 5, has become the youngest Singaporean to reach the Mount Everest base camp, completing the feat with his ...
Nepal Court Orders Limit On Everest Climbing Permits
Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered the government to limit the number of mountaineering permits issued for Everest and other ...
Garbage is piling up on Mount Everest. These sustainable solutions are underway
The trash problem first became evident in the 1980s and 1990s, when climbing on the mountain and trekking in Khumbu began to ...
D.C. Everest wins via comeback, SPASH ties after rain suspension in softball non-conference matchups
The Evergreens took on Superior and started their game down 3-0 in the first. But junior Brooke brown would send a three-run ...
Acclimatizing on Everest: Conventional, Accelerated, and Techno
Improved hypoxic tent technology helps reduce the time acclimatizing for the world's highest peaks - including Everest ...
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Chinese red tape scuppers climber’s hopes of being first Irish person to peak Everest without an oxygen tank
And last year, disaster struck once again after an unexpected storm cut short his oxygen-less expedition to the summit of ...