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'Heavy lifter' drones could soon solve Mount Everest's trash problem
Sherpas will be trained to use the drones to help them remove the 50 tons of metric waste left by a…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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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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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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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,Cl…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A sherpa described finding a freezing climber in Everest's 'death zone' and carrying him down on his back in an epic rescue
The stricken climber was carried down Mount Everest by local Nepalese sherpas from a zone where tem…
Isobel van Hagen
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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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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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Nepal's is banning Mount Everest climbers from taking pictures and videos of 'others' without consent
Nepals Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has put a ban on taking and circulating pict…
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Nepal is planning to move its Everest base camp because of rapidly thinning glaciers and erosion from climbers
The base camp, which is on top of a glacier thinning at a rate of 1 meter per year, is unsafe for c…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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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…