He and Gupta will have to climb unknown ground above 8,000m to the jump point. From Base Camp, Howell and Gupta immediately advanced through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1.

Lhotse, on the other hand ... The pilot is also clear that his goal is the jump, not the climb. “A weather window for a wingsuit jump is not as simple as a summit window,” says Howell.

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and ... It becomes very obvious when one has reached this point in the climb—one's crampons hit hard rock. The top of the yellow ...

The expansive western flank of Lhotse is called the Lhotse Face and is an unavoidable part of the traditional southeast route up Everest. Camp III sits about halfway up this ascending wall of ...

At the end of December a Japanese expedition led by Osamu Tanabe managed to climb the south Fasce of Lhotse (8516m) in winter, but turned back 40m short of the summit. Many expeditions are in the ...

The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has announced the successful completion of route fixing through the Khumbu ...

sharing the highly ambitious goal of completing the coveted Everest - Lhotse traverse without supplementary oxygen: 41-year-old Romanian Horia Colibasanu and 53-year-old Slovak Peter Hamor who hope to ...

Trained climbing guides of the fixing teams will thoroughly monitor the situation above Camp II and begin fixing ropes towards the summits of Everest and Lhotse, he explained. "We plan to set ...

Andrews training last fall, with the south face of Lhotse in front of him. Photo: Chris Fisher "I will climb higher during rotations before the summit push," Andrews explains. "When I achieved the ...

the food he eats on every climb, his best advice and more for his MJ5. The first phase included Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Kanchenjunga, Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu, while the second phase included ...