The Sherpa community, who grew up on the foothills of the snow-covered mountain they worship as the mother of the world, is the most startled.
Suzanne adamantly refused the advice of Sherpas, asserting that she had to climb the 8,848.86 metres-high peak as she had already paid the fee for acquiring permission to climb the mountain.
Dawa, who made his first successful climb in 1998, matched the record number of summits with Kami Rita Sherpa.
Russian mountaineer Katya Lipka has gone against President Vladimir Putin as the latter wages war on Ukraine. She scaled Mount Everest and unfurled Ukraine flag at the peak.
The Everest region receives nearly 60,000 trekkers and mountaineers annually. It is a high revenue-generating segment of the tourism industry of Nepal because of the allure of the world's highest peak.
A team of mountaineers led by Col Amit Bisht, Principal of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM), scaled Mt. Everest on June 1.
A year after Mount Everest was closed to climbers as the pandemic swept across the globe, hundreds are making the final push to the summit with only a few more days left in the season, saying they are undeterred by a coronavirus outbreak in base camp.
A total of 408 foreign climbers were issued permits to climb Everest this season, aided by several hundred Sherpas and support staff who've been
An expert climbing guide said Saturday that a coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, giving the first comprehensive estimate amid official Nepalese denials of a COVID-19 cluster on the world’s highest peak.
China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world's highest peak because of fears of importing COVID-19 cases from neighbouring Nepal
China will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by climbers ascending Nepal's side of the mountain, Chinese state media reported Monday.
A Norwegian climber became the first to be tested for COVID-19 in Mount Everest base camp and was flown by helicopter to Kathmandu, where he was hospitalized.
The world’s highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story.
8848.86 metres is the newly-measured height of Mount Everest, Nepal's Foreign Minister announced on Tuesday. Nepal undertook the initiation to measure the height of the world's tallest peak after speculations that widely accepted that the height of 8,848 metres might not be the actual length after the 2015 earthquake which shook the nation.
A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening gave nod to Nepal's Ministry of Land Management to announce the height of Everest and according to some media reports, as the peak has appeared taller than it was but no official confirmation yet.
A group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
Many Chinese climbers have started cancelling their expedition bookings after the COVID-19 outbreak.
The team members will be battling extreme cold, high winds and piled-up snow and ice as they try to become the first to reach the top of Everest in the winter in 27 years.
If the research presented in December last year is to be believed, the glaciers along Mount Everest's flanks had shrunk significantly from the top down and this happened in between 1962 to 2018.
A new set of rules has now been introduced for Mount Everest climbers. Until now, climbers below the age of 16, persons with serious diseases and criminal history were the only ones barred from climbing mountains.
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