HONG KONG — Some families go to the beach for vacations, others visit big cities. Jamling Tenzing Norgay’s family climbed mountains. “We went on a trek to some beautiful ridges. That’s what we did all the time, with my father,” said Tenzing, whose father, Tenzing Norgay, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa who in 1953 became one […]
The Nepalese army has embarked on annual clean-ups to Mount Everest, Nuptse, and Lhotse since 2019. It’s estimated they’ve removed an astonishing amount of trash and even bodies from the Himalayan peaks over those five years: 119 tons of trash and 14 human corpses. Still, there’s believed to be more than another 50 tons of trash […]
STORY: ::Chinese drone maker DJI completes the world’s first successful drone delivery on Mount Everest ::Mount Everest, Nepal ::It carried three oxygen bottles and other supplies from Everest’s Base Camp to Camp 1 The same FlyCart 30 drone was used to carry trash from Camp 1 located at over 6,000 metres high back down to […]
Sleeping with your head in a bag works. Graham Cooper and Adrian Ballinger, California mountaineers whose acclimatization for Mt. Everest included sleeping at home with their heads in hypoxic tents meant to mimic the agonies of extreme altitude, reached the world’s highest summit on Wednesday. The pioneering acclimatization technique helped cut the time of the […]
WAYZATA, Minn. (FOX 9) – Ryan Rivard knows a thing or two about staking out goals. As a teenager, he set the goal of reclaiming his life. 20 years later, he has claimed Mount Everest. “I did successfully make the summit,” said Rivard fresh off his trip back to the Twin Cities. “It’s pretty fantastic. […]
Did someone cut the fixed rope used by hundreds of climbers to ascend Mount Everest? That’s the claim made by Nirmal “Nims” Purja, an expedition leader who said his team members discovered the sliced rope during a summit push on Monday. Later that day, another team successfully reached the summit using the fixed ropes, leading […]
The body of a Kenyan climber who died on Mt Everest last week will remain on the mountain where he died, his family has said. Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui died while on a daring mission to reach the summit of Mt Everest without supplementary oxygen. The 40-year-old mountaineer fell into a crevasse just about 48 metres […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An Indian climber who was evacuated from Mount Everest after he fell ill last week has died, taking the number of deaths this season on the world’s highest peak to five, officials said on Wednesday. Banshilal, 47, was brought down without reaching the summit after falling sick and was […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest Mount Everest guides on Wednesday expressed concerns about the peak’s growing piles of garbage, as he was honored by his government to mark Everest Day. Sherpa guide Kami Rita, who has scaled Mount Everest a record 30 times, was honored by Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal […]
Even on a mountain known for complex politics, the latest Mount Everest kerfuffle is strange. It started on Sunday when Nirmal “Nims” Purja posted a video on Instagram claiming that someone had cut a line of fixed ropes set up by his expedition company, Elite Exped. That would be a major problem, as many expeditions […]
Nirmal Purja made bold claims on Sunday, posting on Instagram that ropes on Everest had been cut shortly below the summit, just as he was about to lead a team there. But a Pioneer Expedition team, which summited today, reported to ExplorersWeb and others that the ropes were in place. Nepal’s Department of Tourism will […]
A British climber and his guide who reached the summit of Mount Everest have been missing since Tuesday, and are presumed dead in the mountain’s so-called “death zone,” while attempting to descend. The “death zone” is the area on the mountain above 26,000 feet, where low oxygen levels can cause impaired judgment, severe altitude sickness […]