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She's climbed Mount Everest a record-setting 10 times. But her most terrifying moments weren't on the deadly mountain.
Until now, few people knew about the struggles and triumphs of Lhakpa Sherpa, the woman who has sum…
Maria Noyen
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The Expense of the Expanse: Mount Everest
Follow the journey to Mount Everest base camp and beyond from the perspective of the Sherpas who wo…
Business Insider
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Climbing Mount Everest can be deadly. Some Sherpa guides say the grueling work isn't worth it anymore.
Sherpas are built to climb Everest. But high risks and relatively meager pay of guide work could dr…
Maria Noyen,Enxhi Dylgjeri,Clancy Morgan
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Forget Mt. Everest it's not even close to the most difficult mountains to climb, according to mountaineers
Professional mountaineers say climbing Mt. Everest is a walk in the park compared to smaller, more …
Ellyn Lapointe
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Mount Everest is now a trash-filled, overcrowded tourist spot, says the last living member of Edmund Hillary's team
Kanchha Sherpa helped Edmund Hillary reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1953. He says the mountain …
Lauren Edmonds
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Climbers on Mount Everest will be ordered to buy poop bags and bring their waste back down with them, authorities say
To improve a smelly, unsightly situation, climbers scaling Mount Everest will be ordered to buy poo…
Joshua Zitser
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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 …
Ellyn Lapointe
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Scientists discovered a surprising cooling trend on glaciers in Mount Everest 10 years ago. Now they think they know what's causing it.
For the last 15 years, local temperatures have dropped on mountains like Mount Everest during warme…
Saugat Bolakhe
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Record-holding climber blames Nepalese companies for Mount Everest deaths, report says
British climber Kenton Cool reportedly holds the record for the most ascents of Mount Everest by so…
Nathan Rennolds
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My husband left me and our 1-year-old daughter for 6 weeks so he could climb Mount Everest
How I learned to solo parent while my husband climbed Mount Everest. It was hard to do for six week…
Elianna Perez
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At least 12 climbers died on Mount Everest this year, and altitude sickness is partially to blame
By the time Mount Everest's spring 2023 climbing season was unofficially over, 12 climbers were dea…
Ariel Schwartz
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The first all-Black team to summit Mount Everest shares the best and worst moments of the 50-day journey
The Full Circle Everest team in Nepal.The North Face and Full Circle Everest
Monica Humphries
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2023 was one of the deadliest years on Mount Everest. Sherpas say the tragedies could have been avoided if 'impatient' foreign climbers were more careful.
This year has been one of the deadliest years on Mount Everest. Climb organizers blamed extreme col…
Paul Squire
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Microplastics found at the highest point on Earth as the glaciers around Mount Everest’s death zone melt
Microplastics are one of the most harmful side effects of humans using the planet, and they're incr…
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A climber rescued from death's door on Mount Everest is being slammed online for thanking his sponsors instead of the Sherpa who saved his life
The climber, who was carried down from Everest's "danger zone" by a lone Sherpa, was accused of ini…
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese climber saved from Mount Everest has been caught in a social-media firestorm after being accused of refusing to pay a promised $10,000 fee to the Sherpas who rescued her
Liu was castigated by the Chinese internet when the news broke, but the company employing the Sherp…
Matthew Loh
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At least 17 Everest climbers have tested positive for the coronavirus, but Nepal refuses to say there's an outbreak
Climbers aren't being required to undergo regular testing. Nepali officials have refused to acknow…
Ashley Collman
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The first woman amputee to summit Everest shares her incredible story of determination
Since that day in May 2013, Sinha has scaled the highest peaks on five other continents and is j…
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2 climbers, an American and a Swiss, have died on Everest after suffering snow blindness and exhaustion
Everest organizers told Agence France-Presse the two climbers died Wednesday. They are the first de…
Sinéad Baker
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China is setting up a 'line of separation' on top of Mount Everest to isolate climbers going up the Tibetan side from a COVID-19 outbreak on the Nepalese side
Tibetan guides will set up the "line of separation" before a group of 21 Chinese nationals arrive o…