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The elite Sherpa team tasked with fixing ropes to the top of Lhotse summited today, marking the first summit of the season on the Himalayan peak. Lhotse, meanin ...
Any minute, Sherpa workers will summit Everest for the first time this year. An earlier group summited Lhotse about three ...
In his latest dispatch from the hike to Mount Everest Base Camp, the writer discusses how the booming tourism industry has ...
A group of Sherpa climbers from 8K Expeditions made the season’s first summit of the world’s fourth highest mountain this ...
A team of rope-fixing climbers successfully scaled Mt Everest from Nepal side after they opened a climbing route to the ...
Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions ...
The route to the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 feet), the tallest mountain in the world, has just arrived at Camp 4 (7,900m/ 25,920 feet). This camp, also known ...
After a snowy, windy week with climbers stuck in Base Camp, a long spell of good weather is about to begin. The first summits ...
An expedition is planning to take clients up the world's tallest mountain in record time with xenon gas. But some in the ...
Octogenarian Carolyn Robinson sets off on a 130-kilometre trek to reach Mount Everest's South Base Camp, 5,364 metres above ...
A new drone service is delivering supplies such as ladders and oxygen cylinders on Mount Everest, making it safer for Sherpas and cutting the time it takes to get supplies up the mountain – as well as ...
Specialist Sherpas who hail from the nearby hills ... “In the beginning, because it was also our first time at the Everest Base Camp, we were not sure how the drone would perform at that ...