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Nepali officials reportedly may require climbers hoping to scale Mount Everest to prove their physical fitness, following a deadly year that saw 11 people die on the mountain
The new guidelines would reportedly require climbers to scale a Nepali peak of at least 6,500 meter…
Áine Cain
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Scary gets a new meaning. Watch this dramatic footage of the Mt. Everest avalanche
The deadly avalanche has been captured by someone in a video that seems to have given the word ‘sca…
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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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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…
Connor Perrett
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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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Deadly Nepal earthquake was so powerful it moved Mount Everest
The quake, which hit Nepal on April 25, devastated the city of Kathmandu and caused an avalanche on…
Tanya Lewis
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Climbers are tweeting about being trapped on Mount Everest after earthquake-triggered avalanche kills 18
Last year, 16 Nepalese Sherpas were killed by an avalanche as they were working to prepare the rout…
Dina Spector
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The Nepalese government has closed Mount Everest ahead of its busy spring climbing season as a 'precaution' against the coronavirus outbreak
The country, which also plans to stop issuing visas until April 30, was last forced to interrupt it…
Rhea Mahbubani,Rhea Mahbubani
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Dead bodies litter Mount Everest because it's so dangerous and expensive to get them down
As May temperatures warm and winds stall, the favorable springtime Everest climbing conditions are …
Hilary Brueck
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People are paying up to $130,000 to climb Mount Everest with personal photographers and private bars at base camp
One company, Seven Summit Treks, charges $130,000 per person for a "VVIP" Mount Everest package tha…
Katie Warren
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'This is my year's earnings': Nepal's tourism industry is reeling after the Everest climbing season was canceled
Over 1 million workers in Nepal rely on tourism, but a nationwide lockdown has left many unable to …
Robert Leslie
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Google executive among those killed on Everest after massive Nepal earthquake
I just had the immensely sad task of sending the following to all Google employees. My thoughts are…
Erin Fuchs
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Death toll rising rapidly, PM Narendra Modi promises all help possible
Over 400 are so far known to have died in a massive earthquake of 7.9 magnitude which hit large par…
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A Mount Everest record-holder says summit 'traffic jams' aren't the problem - it's the trek down that kills people
Although Sherpas serve as guides, climbing the mountain is extremely dangerous for them, too. Pasan…
Hilary Brueck
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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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Mount Everest is clogged with inexperienced climbers, but there's too much money at stake for anyone to do anything about it
But death has always lurked on Everest, with its slopes claiming 200 lives since 1992, according to…
Áine Cain,Allana Akhtar
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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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At least 11 people died on Mount Everest last week. But it's just the 10th deadliest mountain in the Himalayas.
According to NASA's Earth Observatory, Annapurna I - the 10th highest mountain in the world - is th…
Aylin Woodward
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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…