Name: As ice melts, Everest’s ‘death zone’ gives up its ghosts
Uploaded: 2024-06-27T01:56:47-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: On Everest’s sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world’s highest mountain. Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring […]

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As ice melts, Everest’s ‘death zone’ gives up its ghosts

On Everest’s sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world’s highest mountain. Among those scaling the soaring Himalayan mountain this year was a team not aiming for the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak, but risking their own lives to bring […]

Record-holding Sherpa guide concerned about rubbish on Everest’s higher camps

One of the greatest Mount Everest guides has expressed concerns about the peak’s growing piles of rubbish, as he was honoured by his government to mark Everest Day. Sherpa guide Kami Rita, who has scaled Mount Everest a record 30 times, was honoured by Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in Kathmandu on the anniversary […]