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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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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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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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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
How a Nepali sherpa rescued a climber from the Everest 'death zone'
A Nepali sherpa made a nearly impossible rescue after finding a climber clinging in Mount Everest's…
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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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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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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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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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Nepal has granted a record number of permits to climb Everest despite potential for traffic jams in the so-called 'death zone'
Experts say overcrowding in Mount Everest's "death zone" could be dangerous. But Nepal's government…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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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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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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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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Traffic congestion on the world’s highest peak is creating a ‘death zone’
The world’s highest peak is racking up casualties at a rate that people are now calling it a ‘de…
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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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US stocks are in the 'death zone' and could crash 26% within months, Morgan Stanley's top strategist says
Mountain climbers dying on Mount Everest are "a perfect analogy for where equity investors find the…
George Glover
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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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Earth's mysterious core may be encased by an ancient ocean floor that has mountains 5 times taller than Everest
An ancient ocean may protect Earth's core, according to the most detailed map yet of the geology be…
Marianne Guenot
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What happens to your body in Mount Everest's 'Death Zone' where 11 people died in the past week
Some climbers are injured or perish from the indirect results of these high-altitude health problem…